GRS 190 CONFIDENTIAL
FM UKMIS GENEVA
Confidential
TO DESKBY 161400Z FCO
TELNO 176
OF 161030Z APRIL 1986.
INFO DESKBY 170030Z PEKING, HONG KONG
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PEKING TELNO 505 TO FCO : AND YOUR TELNO 300 HONG KONG AND THE GATT
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AS REPORTED IN OUR TELNO 172 WE SHALL BE DISCUSSING THE RESULTS OF OUR SEPARATE BRIEFING EXERCISES WITH THE CHINESE AT THE END OF THIS WEEK. WE ASSUME THAT THERE WILL THEN BE A BRIEF PERIOD OF REFLECTION TO ALLOW THESE RESULTS TO BE ASSESSED IN LONDON AND PEKING BEFORE A DECISION IS TAKEN TO GO AHEAD WITH THE FORMAL
DECLARATIONS.
2. AGAINST THIS BACKGROUND AND IN THE LIGHT OF THE APPARENT CHINESE MISUNDERSTANDING ON BRIEFING REPORTED IN YOUR TELNO 200 THE TIMETABLE PROPOSED BY WANG OF FORMAL GATT NOTIFICATION ON 21 OR 22 APRIL LOOKS OPTIMISTIC. MOREOVER, AS THE CHINESE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM DOES NOT SEEM, AT LEAST IN THIS EXERCISE, TO BE AS EFFICIENT AS OURS, YOUR OWN PROPOSALS FOR 23 OR 24 APRIL MIGHT NOT BE ATTAINABLE. IN ANY CASE THE DIRECTOR GENERAL WILL BE AWAY FROM HIS OFFICE FROM 24 APRIL AND DOES NOT RETURN UNTIL MIDDAY ON 30 APRIL.
3. AS SEEN FROM HERE IT WOULD BE MORE REALISTIC TO THINK IN TERMS OF DECLARATIONS BEING DELIVERED PERSONALLY AS YOU SUGGEST BY THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF GATT UPON THE LATTER'S RETURN ON 30 APRIL, OR SOME TIME LATEP IN THE SAME WEEK.
SANKEY
HONG KONG AGREEMENT: RESTRICTED
LIMITED
HD/HKD
HD/FED
COPIES TO:
MR FIFOOT, LEGAL ADVISERS MR WOOD LEGAL ADVISERS
RESEARCH D (FE)
DEP/HD PUSD
PS/MR RENTON MR WILSON
HRR 102/1
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
1 8 APR 1986
OFFICER
PA
ISTRY
Action Taken
AB 18/14
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