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It would help with forward diary planning here if you could let me have your preliminary thinking on any meals or meetings which you might wish to advise the Prime Minister to hold in this country in connection with the above trip. For example, would you wish to advise that before she leaves for her visits the Prime Minister should meet journalists concerned with Far Eastern affairs? Would there be any question of a reception or meal for British businessmen who trade with the area? Are you likely to advise any other engagements of this kind beyond the ordinary briefing meeting before departure?
HER CHOLI (A) 1981
You will recall correspondence (ending with Roderic Lyne's letter of 4 January to me) about the possibility of the Prime Minister entertaining the Chinese Ambassador before she goes to the Far East.
I should emphasise that I am not seeking formal advice for the time being, but merely preliminary indications which will enable us to make provision in the Prime Minister's programme.
F.N. Richards, Esq.,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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