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PAUL
MS MARSDEN
MS MAJOR
MR MORRIS
MR STONE
14/6
Mr Paul, HKD
CONFIDENTIAL
From:
PS/Mr Maude
Date:
13 June 1990
cc:
PS
HKC040/4
REC
15 JUN 1990
Mr McLaren
Mr Burns
Mr Moss
Mr Whitehead, News Dept
Mr Davies, FED
Mr Bone, ERD
MS
PM
HONG KONG
1. The following issues were discussed at the Minister's meeting this morning and it was agreed that:
(i) Visit to China. Mr Maude would ask the Chinese Ambassador to call (now fixed for 1400 on 14 June); he would explain that dates in early July were difficult and the later dates much more convenient. Action: FED to draft telegram of instructions for Peking to take parallel action.
(ii) Timetable for managing the transition. Action: HKD to combine all of the issues covered in the present draft in a single chronology.
(iii) Checklist for JLG. Before JLG XVI, we should aim to give the Chinese a (one page) list of issues we think the JLG should address over the next year. This agenda' would only include those items on which we are prepared to give the Chinese advance warning; it would demonstrate how much work has still to be done; and it might include some slack for the Chinese to cut. Mr Maude could perhaps hand this over in Peking at the end of July. Action: HKD.
(iv)
Airport Project. Japan would only be interested in an Anglo-Japanese consortium if they felt it would deliver contracts that Japanese companies on their own would not be awarded. We needed to consider whether the right Japanese partner was involved, and whether HMG should put all its weight behind Trafalgar House/Costains. The main thing was for the companies to put up a good case; we would only use our
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