CONFIDENTIAL
FM PEKING
TO PRIORITY FCO
TELNO 792
OF 100756Z MAY 1989
CONFIDENTIAL
INFO PRIORITY HONG KONG, HANOI
INFO ROUTINE UKMIS GENEVA
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1 O MAY 1989
DESK OFFICER
INDEX
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HONG KONG TELNO 1409.
VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE: TRANSIT OF VIETNAMESE FIRST DEPUTY
FOREIGN MINISTER.
VIETNAMESE EMBASSY, TO WHOM WE HAVE NOW SPOKEN ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, HAVE DECLINED TO GIVE US DETAILS OF LIEM'S TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS CLAIMING THAT HE WILL BE PASSING THROUGH HONG KONG
ONLY VERY BRIEFLY AND THAT THERE WILL NOT BE TIME TO CONDUCT
ANY SORT OF BUSINESS THERE. THE EMBASSY WOULD NOT EVEN
SPECIFICALLY CONFIRM THAT LIEM WOULD BE ARRIVING AND DEPARTING
ON 13 MAY ALTHOUGH THEY DID NOT CONTRADICT THAT TIMING. THEY HAVE, HOWEVER, CONFIRMED THAT HE WILL BE ARRIVING FROM CANTON BY TRAIN AND IMMEDIATELY FLYING ON TO BANGKOK. HONG KONG
ARRANGEMENTS FOR LIEM ARE BEING MADE BY A ''FOREIGN TRADE OFFICE'
THERE. IT MIGHT THEREFORE BE POSSIBLE TO LAY TRAPS FOR HIM IN
THE LIGHT OF THE TIMINGS OF WHATEVER FLIGHTS THERE ARE THAT DAY
FROM HONG KONG TO BANGKOK.
DONALD
YYYY
ΜΑΙΝ
96
DISTRIBUTION
102
.VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE IN HK
LIMITED
HKD
SEAD
UND
LEGAL ADVISERS
PUSD
NEWS
PS
PS/LORD GLENARTHUR
PS/MR PATTEN ODA
PS MR EGGAR
PS/PUS
MR GILLMORE
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