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THE VISIT WOULD BE IN AUGUST (NO FIRM DATE YET).
IT WOULD BE A BILATERAL VISIT AND ABU HASSAN WOULD THUS NOT BE SPECIFICALLY CARRYING AN ASEAN MEASAGE (THOUGH RECENT ASEAN DISCUSSIONS WOULD BE THE BACKDROP FOR WHAT ABU HASSAN WOULD SAY).
HASHIM CONFIRMED THAT MALAYSIA WAS ENCOURAGED BY RECENT SIGNS OF MOVEMENT IN VIETNAM'S POSITION BUT REMAINED CAUTIOUS ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT WAS IN VIETNAMESE MINDS (IN RELATION TO THE LINKING OF REPATRIATION TO ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE FOR EXAMPLE).
IN THIS RESPECT THE FORTHCOMING VISIT
OF DE MELLO FROM UNHCR WOULD BE OF INTEREST. AFTER VISITING HANOI HE WOULD RETURN
TO GENEVA VIA KUALA LUMPUR (AND PERHAPS BANGKOK). MALAYSIA WOULD BE VERY INTERESTED TO HEAR ABOUT HIS HANOI VISIT.
3. ON THE PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND MALAYSIA'S INVOLVEMENT THEREIN, HASHIM'S REMARKS INDICATED THAT MALAYSIA WAS PROCEEDING ON THE BASIS THAT IT WOULD HOST A PREPCOM BEFORE THE END OF THIS YEAR. ONE OF THE IMPORTANT OBJECTIVES OF ABU HASSAN'S VISIT TO HANOI WOULD BE TO SOUND OUT VIETNAM'S ATTITUDE.
HASHIM'S REMARKS INDICATED THAT THE MFA HAD NOT REALLY FOCUSSED ON THE PREPCOM YET, AS THERE WERE OTHER MORE IMMEDIATE CONCERNS FOR THE MINISTRY'S ALREADY STRETCHED RESOURCES SUCH AS THE JAKARTA JIM AND ABU HASSAN'S HANOI VISIT.
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