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TO TELELETTER PARIS
TELELETTER NFR
OF 15110OZ NOVEMBER 91
AND TO TELELETTER HONG KONG, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
FROM P RICKETTS, FCO
TO N CANNON, PARIS
COPIED TO: HONG KONG FOR POLITICAL ADVISER
UKREP JLG HONG KONG
CHIRAC'S VISIT TO HONG KONG: 8-9 NOVEMBER
This
1. Many thanks for your teleletter of 13 November to Kay Saunders reporting Chirac's antics in Hong Kong. arrived on my desk just before the new man in the French Embassy here covering Asia, M. Bouchard, came to see
me.
2. I therefore took the opportunity to go through with him in some detail our general approach to preserving the success of
I made three Hong Kong on the basis of the Joint Declaration. points in particular which you might reinforce as opportunity offers with the Quai, in case there is any disposition there to take the same line as Chirac on UN monitoring:
The Chinese have always been extremely sensitive to any
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