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10 DEC 1994
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELEGRAM NUMBER 2945 OF 10/12/84
INFO PRIORITY HONG KONG
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MY TEL NO 2450:
PRIME MINISTERS VISIT:
SIGNAHURE PROCEDURES
1. BLUNT CALLED ON ZHANG YU AT THE MFA HIS AFTERNOON TO
DISCUSS SIGNATURE PROCEDURES. THE FOLLOWING SUMMARIES DISCUSSION.
JOINT DECLARATION
2. THE CHINESE WOULD LIKE THE DATE ENTERED IN THE SPACE FOR THIS
PURPOSE IN THE JOINT DECLATION IN MANUSCRIPT
BEFORE THE SIGNATURE CEREMON6. ZHANG PROPOSED THAT HE SHOULD
ENTER THE DATE IN CHINESE CHARACTERS IN THE TWO CHINESE
LANGUAGE VERSIONS AND THAT BLUNT SHOULD
ENTER THE DATE IN THE TWO ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSIONS.
WE IMAGINE THAT THIS SHOULD BE WRITTEN **19 DECEMBER'' RATHER
THATN ''NINETEENTH DECEMBER''. THE PRIME MINISTER
WOULD SIGN FIRST OUR COPIES OF THE ENGLISH AND CHINESE
LANGUAGE VERSIONS THEN, AFTER THE FOLDERS HAVE BEEN EXCHANGED
BY AIDES, THE CHINESE AND ENGLISH VERSIONS WHICH THE CHINESE
WILL RETAIN (IE FOUR SIGNATURES).
3. ZHANG CONFIRMED THAT NO (NO) FULL POWER WOULD BE REQUIRED.
HE SAID THAT CURRENT INTERNATIONAL TREATY PRACTICE
WAS THAT A FULL POWER WAS UNNECESSARY FOR SIGNATURE
OF AN AGREEMENT BY A HEAD OF STATE OR OF GOVERNMENT.
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