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ce. Mr. Mc Laren
SED.
Contacts with Macau and Portuguese Authorities
At lunch in Peking on 7 May I mentioned to
Ambassador Ke Zaishuo that we had been approached
by the Macau authorities with a request for a meeting
to discuss Hong Kong's experience in certain fields
e.g. pensions. This obviously flowed from their agreement with China. We intended to provide the
Macau Government with factual information. Thee
might well be further practical contacts of this
sort over the coming months and years. I wanted
to be sure that the Chinese knew about this so that
they would realise that we were not ganging up with
the Portuguese against them. Ke Zaishuo expressed understanding.
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Mr Thomson, Peking
HKD, FCO
Chancery, LISBON
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