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DRAFT TELE LETTER TO PEKING / COPY AS INCOMING TELELETTER
UK/PRC MARITIME AGREEMENT
Your teleletter of 15 May which crossed with FCO Tel No
272 refers.
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2 We agree with your line. You should approach MFA
as outlined at para 7 of your teleletter t may be
tactically wise to delay an approach until it appears-
given the site of
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that the Air Services negotiations are substantively
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ever On the other hand since our draft text is
unlikely to compromise the Chinese (your para 6 with
which we agree) we must head off any MFA reply to Chen
which allowed the Chinese to take the initiative on-
proposing "best words" to resolve the Hong Kong problem.
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We (Vide second indent to para 2 of FCO Tel No 272.) leave
leave the timing of an approach to the MFA to you.j
3 We suggest you base your explanation on why Hong
Kong needs to be included on the arguments adumbrated in
Hong Kong Tel No 406 of 21 March, ie
(A)
Politically.
We are anxious to ensure that
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Hong Kong should play a full part in the
growing ties of friendship between the UK and
China.
(B) Politically.
A metropolitan only treaty could
lead to renewed pressure for a separate Hong
Kong register with possible lower safety and
pollution control standards in the region.
/ (c)