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SECRETARY OF STATE'S FAR EAST TOUR
M Elliott
Far Eastern Department
16 February 1984
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Sir P Cradock
Sir W Harding Sir S Giffard
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Mm. Hear M. Bowell
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1. Tokyo and Seoul have asked for decisions as soon as possible on the timings of arrival and departure of the Secretary of State's party, and on its composition. They have sent suggestions for the programme.
2. I submit draft programmes for Seoul and Tokyo. (We await Xsuggestions from Hong Kong; HKD will submit separately on this part of the tour.) The following paragraphs of this submission draw attention to some specific points in the programmes.
Seoul
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Mr Spreckley's teleletter of 9 February sets out his proposals in two categories, the "essential minimum" in the view of the Chief of Protocol, and additional possibilities which we might wish to include. The following points arise:
a) the Chief of Protocol regards it as essential that the Secretary of State should lay a wreath at the National Cemetery. This might occupy nearly an hour including travelling time within Seoul. It could be fitted into the programme for 24 April, but I propose to ask HM Ambassador to check whether this is really necessary for a visit at Foreign Ministerial level;
b) the time available will make it difficult to include
both a visit to Panmunjom and an opportunity to see Korean industry. The draft programme which I have submitted comes down in favour of Panmunjom (paragraph 4e of Mr Spreckley's teleletter). If a visit to industry
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is to be included it could either displace the Panmunjom visit or be put in the morning of 25 April, thus entailing a later departure and a later arrival in Japan (at some cost to the smoothness of the Japan programme below). (The Panmunjom visit could just conceivably, at similar cost, be reinstated in the early morning of 25 April.) I doubt whether a visit to the Hyundai ship- yard in the South East of the country (over 200 miles
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