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FROM PEKING 1412312 MAR 35
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 324 OF 14/3/85
INFO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
HKK040/11 Tel 322
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MY SECOND-
HONG KONG AGREEMENT: CALL ON ZHOU NAN A
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1. I SPOKE AS INSTRUCTED IN PARAGRAPH 2 OF YOUR TELNÜ 185 AND
PARAGRAPH 1 OF YOUR TELNO 192.
2. ZHOU NOTED THAT WE DID NOT SEE A NEED FOR PARTICIPATION FROM
HONG KONG, HE WONDERED WHETHER THIS WOULD INCLUDE THE HONG KONG
PRESS. HE ACCEPTED THE IMPORTANCE OF NO PUBLICITY LEAKS ABOUT THE
DATE FOR RATIFICATION BEFORE ROYAL ASSENT. HE ASKED WHEN WE SHOULD
BE IN A POSITION TO INFORM THE CHINESE SIDE OF THE COMPLETION OF
PRE-RATIFICATION PROCEDURES ON OUR SIDE. WOULD THIS BE EARLY OR
MID MAY? THIS HAD A BEARING ON THE DISCUSS LON OF THE TIMING OF AN
ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE JLG'S COMPOSITION.
3. REPEATED THAT WE WERE PROPOSING A TENTATIVE TARGET DATE.
THE DATE FOR RATIFICATION COULD BE ANNOUNCED WHEN EACH SIDE HAD
INFORMED THE OTHER THAT ALL NECESSARY PRE-RATIFICATION PROCEDURES
HAD BEEN COMPLETED ON ITS SIDE. HOWEVER WE DID NOT BELIEVE THAT IT
WAS NECESSARY TO DELAY AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE JLG'S COMPOSITION
UNTIL THE DATE FOR THE EXCHANGE OF INSTRUMENTS OF RATIFICATION HAD
BEEN ANNOUNCED.
4. ZHOU UNDERTOOK TO STUDY WHAT I HAD SAID.
EVANS
HONG KONG AGREEMENT
LIMITED
HD/HKD
HD/FED
HD/PLANNING STAFF
HD/PUSD
DEP HD/PUSD
RESEARCH DEPT (MR WALKER)
PS
PS/MR LUCE
PS/PUS
SIR W HARDING
MR WILSON
SIR J FREELAND
MR J CROWLEY, PUSD
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MR ROBERTS, NEWS DEPT
MR FIFOOT, LEGAL ADVISERS MR BURROWS, LEGAL ADVISERS
MR MARTIN, ASST STAFF CABINET
OFFICE
MR CARTLEDGE, CABINET OFFICE MR D B C CHRISTOPHER. CABINET OFF. SIR P CRADDOCK, No. 10 DOWNING ST.
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