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Your telegram No. 883: U.S. Naval Visits to
Hong Kong.
Ministers agree that in the light of
Washington telegram No. 2062 and your telegram
under reference our objectives can be achieved
by redrafting the interpretative notes with the
addition of a note on the visits of nuclear ves-
sels, without a formal review of the existing
guidelines.
2. In reaching this decision Ministers consi-
dered most carefully Sir D. Hopson's recommend a-
tion (Peking telegram No. 607) that visits of
large or nuclear vessels should be reduced to one
a month. They fully accept that there may be
increased Chinese sensitivity to such visits at
present, but see force in your argument that
nothing short of a total ban or very drastic
reduction in visits would be likely to contri-
bute towards a significant and permanent
improvement in Sino-British relations.
3. You should now approach the Americans and
seek their agreement to a revision of the
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