CODE 18-77
Mr Walker, Research Dept
CHINA/PORTUGAL/MACAO
CONFIDENTIAL
Reference
PA Marcantles
cofy to Miss Boreland
WSES
& back to me
O.R
• Please
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1. Thank you for copying to me your letter of 26 July to Mr McLaren (Hong Kong). Do you have a copy please of the alleged Portugese statement of 6 January 1975 and the Chinese comment of 13 January?
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2. I hope Lisbon will soon be able to deliver a translation of the passages in Coimbra Martin's book, on the Sino/Portugese negotiations bearing on Macao. Meanwhile I doubt whether the Chinese would have agreed to all the points you list in your fifth paragraph, notably that there could be no unilateral initiative to change Macao's status quo or that changes could only take place when the time was right for both parties. The Chinese might have sought, perhaps even achieved, a Portugese undertaking not to take unilateral action, but surely they could not have tied their own hands in this way? However
I suppose the two parties might have agreed that if either wanted change they would first engage, or seek to engage, in negotiations through the diplomatic channel. But further speculation at this stage seems unlikely to be profitable.
NK K 020 RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO
1 1 AUG 1983
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INDEX
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N J Cox
Far Eastern Department W82
233 5539
3 August 1983
cc: Mr Margolis, Hong Kong
Mr Peirce, Peking
Mr Hoare, HKD
Mr Codrington, SED
mr Cox, FED
I attach copies of the two statement requeted in
para I
Mips Bozeland of WSE sech, RD,
your
has undertaker
to look at Coimbra Martins's book (my minute to her of today's
Mr Powell's (Lisbon) Letter to me, which I have copied to you.).
date on Mr Powell
Mole
CONFIDENTIAL
cc (without end): Mr Hoare HKD
Mr Caddington SEP RP Margail Erg, Hong Kong R Peirce Ees
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