VIETNAM GIVES CHINA PERMISSION TO SEND SHIPS TO GET REFUGEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600240012-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: June 6, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1978
Vietnam, Gives China Permission
To Send Ships to Get Refugees
TOKYO, June 5 (Reuters)-Vietnam
told China today that it could send ships
to pick up Chinese residents in Vietnam
who wanted to go to China, the Vietnam
News Agency reported.
The agency said, in a report monitored
here, that the Vietnamese decision was
conveyed to Ambassador Chen Chih-fang
of China today by Deputy Foreign Minis-
ter Hoang Bich Son of Vietnam. China
asked permission last Friday to send the
ships to Vietnamese ports.
In the note given to the Chinese Am-
bassador, the Vietnamese Foreign Minis-
try denied what it called a slanderous
accusation by China that Vietnam was
"intensively ostracizing, persecuting and
expelling" Chinese, the agency said.
Vietnam said the Chinese ships would
be allowed "to enter ports designated by
Vietnam," the report said, adding that
Chinese people in northern Vietnam and
Vietnamese of Chinese descent in south-
ern Vietnam who wanted to leave the
country "will be allowed to do so by
the Vietnamese authorities after they
have complied with all the exit proce-
dures."
They will be allowed to take their per-
sonal property in keeping with the cur-
rent laws and regulations of Vietnam,
the Foreign Ministry said.
A Bid to Remain
The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry said
in a statement that the Chinese "should
stay in Vietnam without anxiety, lead
a normal life and join the people in the
whole country in building socialism in
Vietnam, and build a happy and prosper-
ous life for themselves," the press agency
said.
It added: "Those who want to stay
on in Vietnam will be treated like all
other foreign residents."
It called on China to negotiate with
Vietnam if Peking wanted to change a
1955 agreement between the two coun-
tries covering Chinese residents in the
north or if it wanted to consider the issue
of Vietnamese of Chinese descent in the
south.
The Foreign Ministry said that the issue
was "easy to settle," but that China
"whips up a large-scale propaganda cam-
paign designed to arouse national hatred,
and to create anti-Vietnamese feeling
among the Chinese people."
The agency said the statement conclud-
ed by saying that Vietnam was "firmly
convinced that despite all difficulties and
complications caused by the Chinese side,
justice will prevail, perfidious maneuvers
will fail and the previous friendship" be-
tween the two countries would be pre-
served.
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