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CYPHER/CAT A
PRIORITY HONG KONG TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
ELNO 2149
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5 NOVEMBER, 1968
ADDRESSED FCO TELEGRAM NO. 2149 OF 5TH NOVEMBER REPEATED PEKING
WASHINGTON AND SAVING TO PA SINGAPORE.
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HY TELEGRAM NO. 406 TO PEKING: DISCUSSION WITH N.C.N.A.
REPRESENTATIVES.
FOLLOWING IS FULLER ACCOUNT OF MEETING, WHICH LASTED OVER TWO HOURS.
2. POLITICAL ADVISER AND ASSISTANT POLITICAL ADVISER TOOK PART ON
OUR SIDE SEMICOLON PUN TAK-HSING AND TAM KON REPRESENTED H.
AFTER PUN HAD EXPLAINED THAT N.C.H.A. WISHED TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS
FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF SPECIAL VISITS TO PRISONERS, P.A. SAID WE
HAD INFORMED THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN PAKING IN JULY THAT
WE WERE PREPARED TO ALLOW FURTHER VISITS ON. CONDITION THAT ACCESS
TO GREY WAS GRANTED. PUN SAID THAT THIS WAS NOT A MATTER FOR
N.C.N.A. SEMICOLON WE SHOULD PURSUE IT IN PEKING. P.A. SAID HE WOULD
ASK H.M. CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN PEKING TO DO SO. WHEN SATISFACTORY
ASSURANCES ABOUT A VISIT TO GREY HAD BEEN RECEIVED, VISITS COULD TAKE
PLACE HERE. IN THE MEANTIME HE WAS PREPARED TO DISCUSS THE
ARRANGEMENTS.
3. PUN SAID THAT THE ARRANGEMENTS WOULD BE IN PRINCIPLE THE SAME AS
THOSE MADE IN APRIL BUT N.C.M.A. WANTED TWO CHANGES:-
(A) PRISONERS (12 IN STANLEY) AND VISITORS SHOULD MEET TOGETHER IN
ONE GROUP FOR TWO HOURS.
LAST f. F REF.
REF.
/(B) VISITORS
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