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CONFIDENTIAL
HKB 040 14
Secretary of State's Visit to Washington:
Hong Kong/Vietnamese Boat People
The Secretary of State was grateful to see the draft briefs put up with your minute of 6 September. He has asked if the Speaking Notes could be recast to present the key points in sharper relief. What he has in mind is a sequence of points on something like the following lines:
Hong Kong
VBPS
China has the primary responsibility for restoring confidence in Hong Kong.
But we are doing
The US could do
Problem is reaching crisis point.
details
We shall have to go to SC3 prepared to introduce mandatory repatriation very soon afterwards.
[Defensive] Details of US repatriation of Haitians, Nicaraguans, etc.
7 September 1989
CC:
PS/Mr Maude
Mr McLaren
Mr Burns, News Dept
Mr Millington, FED Mr Colvin, SEAD
Mr Burns, NAD
(R N Peirce)
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