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whatever was worked out, Lord Glenarthur would find
welcoming hosts and the visit would be a valuable
follow-up to Foreign Minister Wu's trip here and an
opportunity to consolidate UK-Chinese links in some important provinces.
5.
Logistically Ulan Bator could be included at the end of the China trip at the cost of a one day extension to 30 June: Lord Glenarthur could take the new (as yet untested) weekly aircraft from Peking to Ulan Bator during the evening of 27 June, leaving Ulan Bator at noon
on 30 June by Aeroflot for Moscow and connexion with the
BA flight arriving in London at 1840. The train service
would not work: to use the Saturday train would reduce the visit to China to two days; the Tuesday train would
not get the party to Ulan Bator until 30 June.
R Cooper
R Cooper
PD3ABI
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