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REEVED IN FIC-STAV
17 OCT 1984
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
Sir E Youde GCMG MBE
HONG KONG
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PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO PEKING
When you were in London with EXCO, we had some discussion of what should be the Prime Minister's objectives in relation to Hong Kong if she decides to go to Peking to sign the agreement.
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We are beginning to give some thought to this and it would be useful to have your views in writing, and those of Richard Evans.
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Our own tentative feeling is that the main point of the Prime Minister going to Peking is to give the agreement the maximum authority by seeing that it is her signature and that of Zhao Ziyang which appear on it. The main purpose would therefore be fulfilled simply by her being there. We cannot at present think of much that she could seek from the Chinese leadership and realistically hope to obtain that would add to confidence in Hong Kong. Moreover there is a danger that if she were to seek things not covered in the agreement, Chinese suspicions about our intentions would be revived and she might face a rebuff.
There will no doubt be other objectives to be pursued in a Sino-British bilateral context.
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I should be grateful for your thoughts.
Yours wer
Incy
Percy Cradock
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Sir Richard Evans KCMG PEKING
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