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Mr, House
AKK026/5
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Ps/Land Bedstead
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Arhittad
31 August 1982
HUGD CRED лин
31/8
500 20
10 DOWNING STREET
From the Private Secretary
Dear Jan,
Thank you for your letter of 26 August about the possible stopover in Canton on the Prime Minister's visit to China envisaged in Mr. Baker's minute to the Prime Minister of 11 August.
As I told you on the telephone, the Prime Minister doubts whether her schedule on the trip to China will permit her to take up Mr. Baker's suggestion. In particular the Prime Minister is clear that the time spent in Hong Kong should not be reduced.
I should be grateful therefore if you could arrange for further advice on the logistics of a visit to Canton to come forward to enable the Prime Minister to make a final decision. In this context you may also like to see the attached minute from Mr. Baker which extends his original suggestion.
I am sending a copy of this letter to Neil McMillan (Department of Industry).
John Holmes, Esq.,
Yus ever,
таби
Timothy Flesher
Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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