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TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 1675
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OF 151224Z SEPTEMBER 86
INFO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
INFO PRIORITY PARIS
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YOUR TELNO 984: NUCLEAR SAFETY: CHINA
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1. CALLED ON ME ZHAORONG, HEAD OF THE WESTERN EUROPEAN DEPARTMENT OF THE MFA, ON 15 SEPTEMBER, ACCOMPANIED BY CALDER. * LEST COPIES OF MY SPEAKING NOTE AND OF THE NO.10 PRESS COMMUNIQUE
WITH HIM.
2. ME EXPRESSED HIS THANKS FOR THE MESSAGE, WHICH UNDERLINED THE CLOSE CROPRATION BETWENN THQ TWN SILES IN CALMING INT-NUCLEAR
SENTIMENT IN HONG KONG WITH REGARD TO DAYA BAY. THE CHINESE SIDE
ALSO REGARDED THE UMELCO REPORT AS POSITIVE. IT WAS HIS
UNDERSTANDING THAT CHINA WOULD INDEED GIVE SERIOUS CONSIDERATION TO THE SEFETY ASPSCTS RAISED BY THE REPMRT.
3. THE LEGCO MISSION WOULD, MEN SAID, BE GIVEN A WARM AND FRIENDLY RECEPTION AT A HIGH LEVEL. THE VISIT WOULD ALSO PLAY A POSITIVE
NZMURTHER CALMING ANTI-NUCLEAR SENTIMENT AND IN CHECKING THE
ARTI-EHUUCLEAR MOVEMENT.
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4. ME ESPECIALLY WELCOMED THE EFFORTS OF BRITISH CABINET MINISTERS
IN ALLAYING FEARS IN HONG KONG. THIS WAS WHAT CHINA HAD HOPED FOR.
HE UNDERTOOK TO PASS THE MESSAGE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO THE THE
LEADERSHIP OF THE MFA, ZHOU PING AND LI PENG.
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