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11. THE SECRETARY OF STATE SAID THAT WHEN HE WAS IN MOSCOW, HE HAD SEEN BOTH GORBACHEV AND YELTSIN. IT WAS NO SECRET THAT THEY DID NOT FIND IT EASY TO COOPERATE. HE HOPED THAT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO PREVENT THE NORTHERN TERRITORIES BECOMING A FOOTBALL BETWEEN THEM. IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO MAKE THE SAME POINTS TO YELTSIN
AS THE JAPANESE MADE TO GORBACHEV.
VBPS.
12. THE SECRETARY OF STATE SOUGHT CLARIFICATION OF THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER'S COMMENT THAT JAPAN HAD MANDATORILY REPATRIATED SOME VBPS. THIS WAS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO US GIVEN THE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF VBPS ARRIVING IN HONG KONG THIS YEAR. NAKAYAMA SAID THAT THE ARRIVAL OF VBPS IN JAPAN HAD NOW STOPPED. ABOUT 1,000 HAD BEEN MANDATORILY SENT BACK BUT SINCE THEY WERE VIETNAMESE WHO HAD COME FROM FUJIAN, THAT WAS WHERE THEY HAD BEEN RETURNED TO.
JAPANESE CANDIDACY FOR THE SECURITY COUNCIL.
13. NAKAYAMA ASKED FOR OUR SUPPORT. THE SECRETARY OF STATE TOOK
NOTE.
14. FINALLY, THE SECRETARY OF STATE THANKED NAKAYAMA FOR THE JAPANESE CONTRIBUTION TO OUR GULF COSTS.
15. PLEASE PASS TO NO. 10 DOWNING STREET.
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