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Sir S. Tomlinson
CONFIDENTIAL
Pc, registi on pusoners
gice. mo.
505-70
小
29) H.K.D).
The 5.5.70
11. Kny/86/5
REPORT BY
WILFORD ON HIS RECENT VISIT
TO EAST ASIA.
いて
5%
Return route from Hong Kong to London
I left Hong Kong on 17 April for Peking spending a day in
Canton en route where I was able to visit the Fair. I reached
Peking late on the evening of 18 April and stayed there till the
early morning of 23 April when I left by train for Ulan Bator arriving
the following day. I had 2 days there leaving for Moscow early ·
on 27 April. I travelled by air via Irkutsk and Omsk arriving the
same afternoon and left for London on the afternoon of 29 April.
My last visits to Peking, Ulan Bator and Moscow were in 1966, 1964
and 1965 respectively.
Persons met at each stop
In Peking I had talks with the Acting Heads of the West
European and Protocol Departments of the H.F.A. The former and the
latter's deputy came to dinner at the Chargé's house. I was also
received by the Vice Minister responsible for European affairs, Lo
Kuci-po, with whom I had an hour's talk. I also had talks with
several heads of diplomatic missions including those of France
Denmark, Holland, Finland and the Soviet Union.
*
In Ulan Bator I had more than an hours talk with the Vice
Minister for Foreign Affairs as well as being entertained to lunch
by him at which much business was also discussed. All the heads of
diplomatic missions with whom we are in relations (except the Cuban)
attended a cocktail party given by the Chargé, as did a very good
selection of important Mongolians,
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