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TO IMMEDIATE FCO TELNO 1017 OF 24 OCTOBER 1975, REPEATED FOR
INFO TO ROUTINE PEKING AND HONG KONG...
YOUR TELS NO 695 TO PEKING AND 881 TO TOKYO:
SECRETARY OF STATE'S VISIT TO FAR EAST.
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1. THE JAPANESE DO NOT OBJECT TO AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DATES FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S VISIT TO TOKYO IN REPLY TO MR ADLEY'S PQ ON 29 OCTOBER. BUT FROM THEIR POINT OF VIEW THIS IS PREMATURE AS THEY WOULD NORMALLY WAIT UNTIL ABOUT A MONTH BEFORE THE VISIT. THEY WILL NOT, THEREFORE, MAKE ANY ANNOUNCEMENT THEMSELVES, BUT IN REPLY TO QUESTIONS WILL CONFIRM THAT THE DATES ARE CORRECT. THEY MAY ALSO HAVE TO ADD THAT THE VISIT WILL TAKE PLACE SUBJECT
TO THE CONVENIENCE OF THE PICT, WIOJE STEERING COMMITTEE WOULD NORMALLY BE CONSULTED, AS THE VISIT FALLS DURING THE NEXT REGULAR
SESSION OF THE DIET THE PRESENT (EXTRAORDINARY) SESSION HAS NO
COMPETENCE TO CONSIDER THE HATTER.
2, THE MEA HAD NO COMMENT ON THE TEXT OF THE PROPOSED REPLY TO THE PQ BUT ASKED THAT, SHOULD IT BE ALTERED IN ANY WAY, THE REFERCHCES TO THE VISITS TO CHINA AND JAPAN SHOULD BE KEPT PARALLEL, JE IF PRECISE DATES WERE GIVEN FOR ONE THEY SHOULD BE GIVEN FOR THE OTHER, AS IN THE PRESENT TEXT. THEY WOULD LIKE ¡PAEDITE CONFIRMATION WIEW THE ANSYOP HAS. BEFN GIVEN, INFORMATION ABOUT ANY RELEVANT SUPPLIMENTARLEG.
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