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SUBJECT: SECRETARY OF STATE'S OVERSEAS VISITS IN 1984
PROBLEM
1.
The Secretary of State has asked for recommendations
for his bilateral visits overseas in 1984. At the PUS's
meeting of DUSSS on 16 November, you were asked to put recommendations to the Private Secretary.
RECOMMENDATION
2.
(a)
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I recommend that it be put to the Secretary of State
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add a visit to the Ivory Coast with to that he has agreed to make to Nigeria in January; (b)
accompany The Queen on her State Visit to
Jordan at the end of March;
(c)
visit Japan and Korea, and possibly two or
three other countries, during the Easter Recess at the
end of April;
(d)
(e)
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during the summer recess.
BACKGROUND AND ARGUMENT
3. At the meeting of DUSSS, it was decided that the
recommendations to be put to the Private Secretary should
be based on:
(i) a January visit to Nigeria (already agreed) plus one
or two other countries, bearing in mind that the Secretary of State will have a team of businessmen with him;
(ii) visits to the Middle East and to the Far East, one at
Easter, andone in September, the Middle East visit perhaps to include Egypt, and the Far East visit Japan and perhaps
Korea and Hong Kong.
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