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Indeed, we shall first need to consult the Chinese on any scheme and their reaction is impossible to predict. I therefore propose that we should say as little as possible in what must, after all, be an interim reply: we can go no further than Mr Maude did.
Mr Pusinelli and a delegation from OSPA recently called on Mr Burns to discuss their various concerns,
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including the question of a General Compensation Scheme. The draft reply is deliberately designed to avoid giving the impression that any options have been closed off before Lord Caithness has had an opportunity to consider the issues himself.
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