the highest level impatience at the slow
progress.
-
In the event, the PM spoke to this brief
the reporting telegram began with the phrase
"The Leaders unsheathed rival telegrams" and underlined that there was an exceptionally
favourable finance proposal made, and this
was as far as we could go. The next negot-
iating session was relatively easy, in that
one could say that our Prime Minister had
informed Premier Zhao that no further
concessions would be forthcoming. We then
completed a paper summarising the final offer
the French submitted a note confirming that
their offer would be in parallel and left
two days later. The Chinese had indicated,
however, that they were still not content
with the issue of ECGD "premium"
<
Surprise at the airport. GEC were also
leaving, having broken off negotiations.
Mr Yu was genuinely upset.
December 1985 - Summary
Still a substantial difference on Framatome
negotiations
EdF.
after three weeks waiting in Beijing,
had hardly been at the table
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