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Other High Level Visits
Prime Ministerial Visits
12. The proposed State Visit would have implications for
the pattern of other high level visits. Although the
proposal for a visit by Prime Minister Li Peng this autumn
now seems to have been dropped by the Chinese, we wil
probably need to accommodate a visit by him at some point.
1990 would not be convenient if President Yang comes here
then and it is in any case unlikely that Li will pay an
early second visit to Europe. But 1991 might be a
possibility.
Alternatively we could consider, in slower
time, whether the Prime Minister might be encouraged to
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