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Mr Coles's letter of 5 July.
2.
The Prime Minister has accepted the outline timetable of
meetings to discuss the future of Hong Kong and other matters
relating to the visit. The complete timetable is now as follows:
1100 Lord MacLehose sees Secretary of State.
21 July
23 July
28 July
1100
Lord MacLehose sees Prime Minister.
0930
Prime Minister's meeting on the future of
Hong Kong;
1500
Sir P Cradock calls on Prime Minister;
1530
Sir H Cortazzi calls on Prime Minister.
Sir P Cradock will be available for the meeting with the
Secretary of State on 21 July. The outstanding question is
whether Sir E Youde should be asked to come to London for any of
these meetings. I recommend that we should do so. We will
probably only have the period up to 5 August, when the Prime Minister goes on holiday, to complete her briefing and to get
decisions from her. I think she would benefit from all the
expertise we can muster. It would be right both for Sir E Youde
to attend the meeting on 21 July with the Secretary of State and
for us to suggest to the Prime Minister that Lord MacLehose, Sir E Youde and Sir P Cradock should all go to the meeting on
28 July.
3.
Since the Secretary of State did not have an opportunity to raise these matters with the Prime Minister on 7 July, I have included some suggestions for handling the dinner with the
Chinese Ambassador in the draft letter, based on the brief attached
to Mr Donald's minute of 1 July.
9 July 1982
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Mark Elliott
Far Eastern Department
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