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CONFIDENTIAL

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Date:

10 August 1989

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VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE: REPATRIATION

Problem

We need to inform the Hong Kong Government of the Secretary

of State's decision to delay non-voluntary repatriation from Hong

Kong.

1.

Recommendation

2.

I submit a draft telegram to Hong Kong. Department have been consulted.

SEAD and News

Background

3.

The Secretary of State has decided that:

on the Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong, we need to plan a

strategy with certain journalists to highlight conditions in the

camps in Hong Kong and the conditions which the boat people pose for

the colony. The Secretary of State would like to see features on

CONFIDENTIAL

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