A
But
the Paris Economic Summit last Summer included the
suspension of Ministerial and high level contacts. partners have always appreciated the need for the UK and Portugal to maintain links with the Chinese Government
because of Hong Kong and Macau respectively. At no stage have they raised any objections to the contacts described
above. This was recently reaffirmed at the June Foreign
Affairs Council.
5. There has been some limited Parliamentary interest so
far in these contacts (the relevant extracts from Hansard
are attached).