CONFIDENTIAL
RECORD OF A MEETING BETWEEN
THE PRIME MINISTER
AND
CHAIRMAN DENG XIAOPING
AT
THE GREAT HALL OF THE PEOPLE, PEKING
ON
19 DECEMBER 1984, AT 4.00 P.M.
PRESENT:
The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher FRS, MP, Prime Minister
The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Howe QC, MP, Secretary of State
for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Sir Richard Evans KCMG, HM Ambassador, Peking
Sir Percy Cradock GCMG, Deputy Under Secretary of
State, FCO
Sir Edward Youde GCMG, MBE, Governor of Hong Kong
Mr F E R Butler, Principal Private Secretary to the
Prime Minister
Dr D C Wilson, Assistant Under Secretary of State, FCO
Mr RJT McLaren, CMG, Assistant Under Secretary of State,
FCO
Mr C D Powell, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
Mr B Ingham, Chief Press Secretary to the Prime Minister
Mr L V Appleyard, Principal Private Secretary to the
Secretary of State
Mr CJ Meyer, Head of News Department, FCO
Mr P A B Thomson, Counsellor, British Embassy, Peking
Mr H L Davies, Commercial Counsellor, British Embassy, Peking
Mr W G Ehrman, First Secretary, British Embassy, Peking
Mr P F Ricketts, Private Secretary to the Secretary of State
Miss A L Batty, Attache, British Embassy, Peking
Mr Y P Cheng, Interpreter
HE Mr Deng Xiaoping, Chairman of the Central Advisory Commission
of the Chinese Communist Party
HE Mr Ji Pengfei, State Councillor
HE Mr Wu Xueqian, State Councillor and Foreign Minister
HE Mr Zhou Nan, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs
HE Mr Jia Shi, Vice-Minister of Foreign Economic Relations
and Trade
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