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CALL BY NEW ZEALAND MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON THE SECRETARY OF STATE, THURSDAY 13 OCTOBER 1983
ESSENTIAL FACTS [NOT FOR USE]
A. Future of Hong Kong
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The Secretary of State is aware of the background to
the future of Hong Kong. The fifth round in the second
phase of Sino-British talks on this subject will take
place in Peking on 19/20 October.
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B. Briefing the New Zealanders
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The Prime Minister has agreed that we should keep the
New Zealanders generally up to date at a high level, as we
do in the case of the Australians and Canadians and, to a
greater extent, the Americans. Accordingly, Mr Whitney
briefed Mr Cooper and Mr Templeton (Deputy Secretary
the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs) during his
visit to New Zealand in late September (see Wellington.
telno 280 attached). The New Zealand MFA had recently
been showing renewed interest in Hong Kong, both here and
in Wellington. Like the Australians, they have a regional
It may well be that they had already received
at third hand some of the details which we had been
interest.
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