restate their "requirements". final stage began (1985-86).
B
Micro-Negotiations
So the
THE PLAYERS
There were three levels of negotiations,
each conducted in its own distinct series
of contacts:
Commercial: EdF/Framatome
→JVC
JVC
French officials (DREE) → BOC
(a)
GEC
(b) Financial:
UK (PEP/ECGD)
(c)
cant against a background of the
→BOC
Political: not specific, but signifi-
negotiations for the Hong Kong
Agreement proceeding, and the PM's meetings in Beijing to sign the Treaty in May 1985. But the project was kept in political profile by reference in the growing number of Ministerial contacts that occurred
over the year.
Special features
(a) BOC role the focus of the finance
negotiations. What became apparent was that "as the financier of the project", they regarded themselves as the recipient of Anglo/French loans, which would then
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