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TELEGRAM
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KUALA LUMPUR..
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AND TO (precedence/post)
PRIORITY JAKARTA
SINGAPORE
COLOMBO
AND TO SAVING
INFO
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PEKING HONG KONG
INFO SAVING
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[TEXT]
PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO SOUTH EAST ASIA AND SRI LANKA
1. The Prime Minister has now decided to visit Peking and
Hong Kong (FCO telno
*
not to all). This will take
place in the week before Crhistmas.
She will not visit
South East Asia or Sri Lanka on this occasion.
2.
We are concerned to pre-empt any adverse reaction
by governments on the Prime Minister's original itinerary.
We have in mind in particular advice in Jakarta telno
and Kuala Lumpur telno
We want to avoid offence
to Prime Minister Mahathir and President Soeharto in
particular.
3. The risk of such offence is likely to be reduced if
Shouth before we can tell the posts concerned, at the time the Prime
/Minister's