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desire. That is why your visit now and others in both
directions in the future will be so important.
We
must get to know each other so well that if we have
differences we can discuss them as friends and that
when, as I hope will always be the case, we share
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important objectives we can work together even better
in order to achieve them. We have already arrived at
an excellent degree of understanding in many areas:
over the principal problems faced by the international
community, over Hong Kong, and over the degree to which
we can assist one another in many practical ways. То
me, your visit comes at a particularly auspicious time,
and I look forward to exchanging views with you on the major
issues which still need resolution: the Middle East,
African problems, East-West relations and disarmament.
But I hope that you will not keep such discussions for
formal occasions such as visits. I hope that when we
Finally, I would like to
have views to exchange we can do so regularly through
our respective Ambassadors.
repeat my pleasure and that of my wife that we are able
to welcome you to London.
your contacts with a very wide range of British people
from all walks of life while you are in this country;
and it goes without saying how much I look forward to
I hope you will enjoy
coming to China myself in order to meet you again there and
to learn something of your country's extraordinary
:
achievements at first hand.
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