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FALKLANDS AT THE UNITED NATIONS: CHINESE ATTITUDE
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PROBLEM
1. Foreign Minister Huang Hua adopted a pro-Argentine line
in his address to the General Assembly on 4 October. Should
we remonstrate with the Chinese?
RECOMMENDATION
2. I submit a draft telegram to Peking. FED, HKGD and FID
concur.
B
BACKGROUND
3. Sir P Cradock had a preliminary exchange of views with the
MFA in Peking on 20 September and was warned that China supported
a resumption of negotiations.
A
ARGUMENT
4. We agree with Sir J Thomson that we should not allow the
Chinese to think that we are indifferent to their attitude,
which demonstrates an identification with Argentina's case going
well beyond that of most Third World countries. We should not
on the other hand make too much of a fuss with the Chinese
because of the delicacy of our negotiations with them on the
future of Hong Kong (a problem where, whether we like it or not,
the Chinese see some parallel with the Falklands). It is too
much to hope that they will abstain on the Argentine draft
resolution.
Our representations should therefore be directed
to making it more difficult for them to speak in an offensively
pro-Argentine fashion in the Falkland Islands debate. The form
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