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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
Mrs E Mok
Economic Services Branch
Government
HONG KONG
Secretariat
Telephone 01-
233 3978
Dear Emrulers,
HKK 166
RECEIVED IN
INDEX
166/1
2 1 NOV 1986
DISTRY
L
ton Takk
Your reference
Our reference
Date
HKK 166/1
20 November 1986
740
MR RENTON'S CALL ON DR BLIX
1.
call
Dr on
DIRECTOR-GENERAL,
IAEA
I give below an extract from
the record of Mr Renton's Blix. A s usual with records of Ministerial meetings, it should be circulated only on a "need to know" basis.
2.
once
the French
had
"On Daya Bay Mr Renton said that the main preoccupation of people in Hong Kong was the
the question of maintenance
of
plant
the completed
construction and its engineers had left. Hong Kong, after all, was not the plains of Kiev. 5 million people had nowhere else to go. Furthermore the record of the PRC over maintenance had not plant at Shanghai). yet been
He
was
It was
car
not Blix
Mr
this
a
however
been good (eg the
dates that
had convenient sorry found for Michael Rosen to
Dr visit Hong Kong. asked whether the French were offering continuing assistance. Renton said that he had advised the Hong Kong delegation that
of the angles they should be pursuing. difficult issue for them. Although they would be receiving some 75% of the power
still clearly on Chinese territory. Dr Blix asked about prevailing wind directions from the plant. If the prevailing wind had been south east instead of north west at Chernobyl the disaster would have been
was
much
one
the to
generated
by
the
was plant it
Kiev
water
the putting
Kong water
greater, Wilmshurt said that he understood Daya
Hong
supplies. IAEA was of course prepared to assist but Mr Renton agreed."
threat
3.
at
Mr
Dr
had
risk. supplies
Bay posed just such a
Blix
that the said to be very careful.
"Returning to the question of Chinese association with the IAEA, Dr Blix said that although they made good use of the IAEA facilities, it turned out
that in their safeguards'
the same type of other nuclear weapon
negotiations
wanted they
currently
applied
to
the
arrangements
as
states.
He had
hoped that they would accept an overall agreement for both the
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