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TELEGRAM NUMBER 2996 OF 15/12/84
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MY TEL NO 2970 AND 2991 AND YOUR TEL ONO 1552:
PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT:
SIGNATURE CEREMONY
COD issued two telegrams with number
2996
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The other is (483) re
admin arrangements for
1. BLUNT AND MISS STUBBS CALLED ON YANG HEXIONG (PROTOCOL DEPARTMENT) THIS MORNING FOR FURTHER DISCUSSIONS
ABOUT DETAILED ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE VISIT.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE SIGNATURE CEREMONY
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DIFFER IN SOME RESPECTS FROM THOSE EARLIER SKETCHED OUT BY ZHANG YU (MY FIRST TUR)
2. THE SIGNATURE CEREMONY WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE
WESTERN HALL OF THE GREAT HALL OF THE PEOPLE. IF, AS THE
MFA EXPECT, THE PRIME MINISTER'S MEETING WITH
DENG XIOAPING CONTINUES UNTIL SHORTLY BEFORE THE SIGNATURE CEREMONY (1730), ALL MEMBERS OF THE TWO DELEGATIONS EXCEPT FOR DENG AND THE PRIME MINISTER
WILL GO DIRECTLY FROM THE FUJIAN ROOM (WHERE THE MEETING WITH DENG WILL TAKE PLACE) TO THE SIGNATURE HALL, WHERE THEY WILL TAKE THE IP PLACES (SEE PARAGRAPH 3 BELOW). ONE OR TWO MINUTES LATER DENG WILL ESCORT THE PRIME MINISTER TO A POSITION IN THE NORTHERN HALL CLOSE TO THE ENTRANCE TO THE SIGNATURE HALL, HHERE PRESIDENT LI XIANN LAN AND PREMIER ZHAO ZIYANG WILL BE WAITING. IF THE MEETING WITH
DENG FINISHES EARLIER THAN EXPECTED, THE PRIME MINISTER AND HER DELEGATION WILL BE SHOWEN INTO A NEARBY ANTEROOM FROM WHERE THE DELEGATION, THEN SHORTLY AFTERWARDS THE
PRIME MINISTER, HEAPSELF WOULD BE COLLECTED. IN THE LATTER
CASE, THE PRIME MINISTER WOULD BE ESCORTED BY A PROTOCOL
OFFICIAL AND WOULD MEET LI, ZHAO AND DENG CLOSE TO
THE ENTRANCE TO THE SIGNATURE HALL.
THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE THREE CHINESE LEADERS WOULD
THEN ENTER THE SIGNATURE HALL IN A GROUP (NO PARTICULAR ORDER) AND TAKE THEIR PLACES (SEE PARAGRAPH 3).
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6. AFTER THE SIGNATURE PROCEDURE (MV TEL NO 2945), ZHAO WILL DELIVER HIS SPEECH WHICH WILL BE INTERPRETED, PROBABLY PARAGRAPH BY PARAGRAPH RATHER THAN SENTENCE BY SENTENCE. THE PRIME MINISTER WILL THEN DELIVER HE SPEECH, WHICH WILL BE INTERPRETED BY YP CHENG.
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