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TO PRIORITY FCO
TELNO 592
OF 070843Z OCTOBER 88
INFO PRIORITY BANGKOK, KUALA LUMPUR, HANOI
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INFO ROUTINE JAKARTA, SINGAPORE, PEKING, WASHINGTON, CANBERRA INFO ROUTINE TOKYO, OTTAWA, HONG KONG
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YOUR TELNO 454 TO BANGKOK AND MY TELNO 585: VIETNAM: ORDERLY DEPARTURE PROGRAMME
1. VIEIRA DE MELLO (UNHCR ASIA BUREAU) ALSO BRIEFED US ON DISCUSSION IN HANOI OF ORDERLY DEPARTURE PROGRAMME. HE SAID THE PROGRAMME WAS NOW GOING WELL: OVER 3,000 DEPARTURES IN SEPTEMBER A RECORD FIGURE
AND UP TO 3,500 DEPARTURES WERE EXPECTED IN OCTOBER.
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DEPARTURES
WERE BEING FACILITATED BY USING SPARE CAPACITY OUT OF HANOI ON AIR FRANCE AND THAI INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS. THE VIETNAMESE SIDE HAD ALSO ASKED FOR EARLY RESPONSE FROM RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES ABOUT SUGGESTION OF DIRECT FLIGHTS FROM HO CHI MINH CITY TO MANILA AND GUAM. VIEIRA DE MELLO COMMENTED THAT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME HE HAD HEARD OF A POSSIBILITY OF FLIGHTS TO GUAM.
2. UNHCR HAVE NOW AGREED WITH VIETNAM THAT NEXT ROUND OF ODP TALKS SHOULD BE HELD IN GENEVA IN SECOND WEEK OF DECEMBER.
3. PARAGRAGH 1 OF BANGKOK TELNO 668: VIEIRA DE MELLO ASKED US TO ENCOURAGE VIETNAM DURING COURSE OF BILATERAL TALKS IN LONDON NEXT WEEK TO PARTICIPATE IN EXPANDED ASEAN MEETING IN BANGKOK ON 27/28 OCTOBER. WHEN PRESSED ON THIS BY VIEIRA DE MELLO IN HANOI, VIETNAMESE SAID THAT THEY WOULD WISH TO TALK FIRST TO THE PRK IN PHNOM PENH, AS DISCUSSIONS ABOUT INDO-CHINESE REFUGEES SHOULD ALSO INCLUDE KHMERS IN THAILAND. VIEIRA DE MELLO EMPHASISED THAT CONSULTATIONS IN BANGKOK ON 27/28 OCTOBER WERE BEING ORGANISED BY UNHCR.
ONLY 16,000 KHMERS IN THAILAND WERE UNDER UNHCR CONTROL. OTHERS CAME UNDER THE AUSPICES OF ICRC, UNBRO, COALITION AND THE UN SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE, UNHCR THOUGHT THAT ASEAN COUNTRIES WOULD WISH TO TREAT THE CAMBODIA PROBLEM IN THE WIDER JIM PROCESS, THE VIETNAMESE SUBSEQUENTLY MADE CLEAR THAT THEY WOULD NOT PRESS THE
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