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BE A MEETING IN TWO STAGES, AND IT WAS NOT CLEAR HOW IT WAS TO BE HANDLED. THERE WAS STILL ROOM FOR VIETNAM TO PLAY TRICKS. HE HAD MET CO THACH AT A RECEPTION THE DAY BEFORE: THE LATTER HAD ASKED TO SEE HIM. HE HAD SAID THAT HE HAD NO TIME ON THIS OCCASION, AND ADDED THAT VIETNAM NEEDED TO PRODUCE DEEDS AND NOT JUST WORDS. THAT SAID, AND IN THE RIGHT CONDITIONS
HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE AN IMPROVEMENT IN
RELATIONS. THE SECRETARY OF STATE AGREED THAT THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING WOULD BE IN THE EATING. WE CERTAINLY HAD NO WISH TO SEE CAMBODIA DOMINATED BY POL POT AGAIN. WE WOULD KEEP UP THE PRESSURE ON VIETNAM. QIAN AGREED THAT THE PRESSURE SHOULD BE KEPT UP, ESPECIALLY FOLLOWING SOVIET WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN. AS FOR THE FUTURE, THE KHMERS SHOULD DECIDE THEMSELVES WHAT SORT OF GOVERNMENT THEY WANTED. CHINA SUPPORTED A COALITION GOVERNMENT HEADED BY SIHANOUK IN A POSITION TO EXERCISE REAL POWER.
10. THE SECRETARY OF STATE SAID THAT WE ATTACHED GREAT IMPORTANCE TO CONTINUED COOPERATION BETWEEN THE FIVE PERMANENT MEMBERS ON THE GULF WAR. THE SECRETARY GENERAL NEEDED ALL THE SUPPORT HE COULD GET. THE SECOND RESOLUTION STILL HAD A PART TO PLAY IN KEEPING UP THE PRESSURE ON IRAN. QIAN SAID THAT THE SECRETARY GENERAL HAD TOLD HIM THAT HE WOULD CONTINUE HIS EFFORTS TO MEDIATE.
99.
IN CONCLUSION THE SECRETARY OF STATE SAID THAT HE HOPED THAT HE COULD CONTINUE THE SAME PATTERN OF MEETINGS WITH QIAN AS HE HAD PREVIOUSLY HAD WITH WU. IT WOULD BE NICE IF QIAN VISITED
LONDON AT SOME STAGE.
HOWE
YYYY
ΜΑΙΝ
LIMITED
FED
HKD
SEAD
MED
PLANNERS
PS
NNNN
49
DISTRIBUTION
49
PS/MRS CHALKER
PS/LORD GLENARTHUR
PS/MR EGGAR
SIR D
MIERS
MR MCLAREN
MR GILLMORE
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