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ANNEX A
VISIT OF THE PRIME MINISTER TO CHINA: 18 - 20 DECEMBER 1984
PEKING: PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
MONDAY 17 DECEMBER
1700
TUESDAY 18 DECEMBER
2020
Leave London Airport.
Arrive Peking.
WEDNESDAY 19 DECEMBER
(details of the programme have not yet been given to us by the Chinese Government, but it is likely to contain the following
elements).
EARLY MORNING
Welcoming ceremony and review of
Honour Guard in Tiananmen Square.
MORNING (probably)
Talks with Premier Zhao Ziyang.
LATE MORNING?
LUNCH
AFTERNOON
LATE AFTERNOON?
Call on Chairman Deng Xiaoping
Given by "a leader" (probably
President Li Xiannian).
Signature ceremony. Prime Minister and Zhao Ziyang to sign agreement. Chairman Deng Xiaoping will
possibly attend.
on General Secretary
Possible call on General
Hu Yaobang.
EVENING
LATE EVENING
Welcoming banquet, given by Zhao Ziyang.
Talk with British press corps.
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