CONFIDENTIAL
From:
JD I Boya
Date:
30 April 1988
March
Mr Cooper, FED
cc:
Mr Lever, SecPol Dept )
Mr Roberts, SCD
Mr Battiscombe, PUSD
) for
) action
Mr Torry, PUSD
Mr Burns, SAD
Mr Young, MED
Mr Hemans, Soviet Dept)
Mr George, RID
Sir J Fretwell
)
Mr Gillmore
Mr Munro
Mr Braithwaite
Mr Goulden
Mr McLaren
Mr Davies, ACDD
Mr Gordon, NED
Mr Yarnold, Defence Dept
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) for ) info
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MY VISIT TO JAPAN:
18-21 APRIL
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1. This has now been brought forward at Japanese request. shall be holding talks with the Gaimusho and other agencies in Tokyo on 18-19 April.
2.
Beyond the general objective of contributing to "thickening up" I have three specific aims:
a)
b)
To continue the exchange on security issues begun when Hasegawa called on me last October. I should expect the discussion to cover:
i)
ii)
Security policy/arms control with particular reference to the securing of European/Japanese interests in a fast moving scene.
East/West relations including our assessment of Gorbachev's domestic success/failure and external policy thrust.
iii) Major regional issues.
Counter-terrorism. I will urge on the Japanese the UK point of view that the international community must continue to deal robustly with the terrorist threat; brief the Japanese on Irish terrorism; and learn what I can of their own problems.
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