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FROM: A R Paul

HKB 243/11

DATE :

30MAY 1989

Hong Kong Department

18 May 1989

CC : PS/Lord Glenarthur

PS/Mr Patten

PS/Mr Eggar

PS/PUS

Mr Gillmore

Mr Caines, ODA

Mr Ireton, ODA

Mr Manning, ODA

Mr Blatherwick

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Mr Crabbie, RMD

Mr Colvin, SEAD

Mr Brenton, UND

McLaren

Mr McLaren

Private Secretary

VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE : RESOURCE IMPLICATIONS

1.

Ministers have agreed that the Secretary of State should write

to the Chief Secretary to warn him that the Vietnamese boat people crisis in Hong Kong may make it necessary for him to ask for

additional funds from the Reserve.

I submit a self-explanatory draft, which has been cleared with the ODA and Mr Crabbie (RMD).

2.

3.

Needless to say, the resource managers of both the ODA and the

Diplomatic Wing would be very reluctant to have to take on new

expenditure of the kind described in the draft, but recognise that

there may be no alternative.

CONF IDENTIAL

ARPAN

A R Paul

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