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HONG KONG: PARLIAMENTARY VISIT SPONSORED BY MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
1. In his minute of 12 March about Mr Stuart's submission of
FLAG 6 March, Mr Davies said that Mr Royle wondered whether Lord
Kennet could be included in the Parliamentary visit to Hong Kong;
and, if so, whether it could be arranged for him then to visit
Peking.
2. I have spoken to the Ministry of Defence, who say that they
have no influence over the choice of MPs and Peers to take part
in these visits. The matter rests with the Whips. In the case
of the one Peer in the Group, an agreement is reached between
the Whips concerned on who should go. Last year a Labour Peer
went. The Ministry of Defence suggest that, if Mr Royle would
like to pursue the suggestion about Lord Kennet, he might like
to have a word with the Whips.
3.
I understand from Far Eastern Department. that at a lunch on
15 March in honour of the Chinese Ambassador given by the British/
Chinese Parliamentary Group and the Great Britain/China Committee
in the House of Commons, the Ambassador said he was going to
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propose to the Parliamentary Group that they should organise a
second Parliamentary delegation to China. Lord Kennet was at
the lunch. He is a member of the Group and took obvious note of
Mr Sung's remark. It may well be, therefore, that Lord Kennet
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