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INFO PRIORITY HONG KONG, UKREP JLG HONG KONG, JAKARTA
ZHOU NAN: ADDED RESPONSIBILITY
1. LIU SHUQING, VICE FOREIGN MINISTER FOR ASIA, HAS RETIRED. PRESS REPORTS, AS YET UNCONFIRMED, SAY THAT HE HAS GONE TO THE SMALL GROUP ON FOREIGN POLICY CHAIRED BY LI PENG. IT WAS RUMOURED THAT THE DIRECTOR OF ASIAN DEPARTMENT XU DUNXIN, (WHO LEAVES FOR JAKARTA ON 3 DECEMBER FOR TALKS ON NORMALISATION) WOULD TAKE OVER.
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THE MFA HAVE CONFIRMED THAT SENIOR VICE FOREIGN MINISTER
ZHOU NAN HAS ADDED OVERSIGHT FOR ASIA TO HIS CURRENT RESPONSIB- ILITIES FOR WESTERN EUROPE AND HONG KONG. A SINGAPOREAN COLLEAGUE THOUGHT THAT ZHOU ALSO HAD SOME OVERSIGHT OF MFA
POLICY PLANNING, BUT THIS WAS NEWS TO US, AND THE MFA OFFICIAL TO WHOM WE SPOKE WOULD NOT CONFIRM IT. XU DUNXIN HAS BEEN PROMOTED TO ASSISTANT FOREIGN MINISTER, RESPONSIBLE FOR ASIA.
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