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YOUR TELNOS 89 AND 90: MEETING WITH WU XUEQIAN.
1. * DELIVERED THE MESSAGE IN YOUR SECOND TELEGRAM TO ZHOU NAN THIS MORNING, ASKING HIM TO CONVEY T TO WU.
2. ZHOU SAID THAT WU HAD BEEN THINKING ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF MEETING YOU DURING HIS EUROPEAN TOUR OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS. HE WOULD LIKE TO MEET YOU AND HAD ASKED ZHOU TO PROPOSE A MEETING ON 28
AS TO 27 MARCH, THE LAST FULL DAY OF HIS VISIT TO SWITZERLAND. MARCH, HE (ZHOU) COULD TELL ME THAT WU WOULD BE SPEAKING TO THE COMMITTEE ON DISARMAMENT IN GENEVA ON THAT DAY, THOUGH IT HAD NOT YET BEEN DECIDED WHETHER HE WOULD SPEAK DURING THE MORNING OR THE
AFTERNOON.
3. SAND THAT DID NOT KNOW WHETHER YOU HAD COMMITMENTS ON 28
BUT IT LOOKED TO ME AS IF A MARCH, WHICH NOTED WAS A SATURDAY.
MUTUALLY CONVENIENT DATE AND TIME OUGHT TO BE NEGOTIABLE.
4. # POINTED OUT THAT YOU HOPED TO HAVE TWO MEETINGS WITH WU DURING MARCH AND APRIL. ZHOU SEEMED SURPRISED. HE SAID HE HAD ASSUMED FROM READING YOUR MESSAGE THAT PLACES IN EUROPE AND BANGKOK WERE ALTERNATIVES AS SITES FOR ONE MEETING. DREW HI'S ATTENTION TO THE PHRASE FURTHER DISCUSSION'' IN THE PENULTIMATE SENTENCE OF THE LAST SUBSTANTIVE PARAGRAPH OF YOUR MESSAGE. ZHOU SAID THAT HE DID NOT KNOW WHETHER WU WAS PLANNING TO GO TO BANGKOK FOR THE ESCAP MEETING. BUT HE WOULD MAKE ENQUIRIES AND LET ME KNOW.
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