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CONFIDENTIAL
J S Wall Esq CMG LVO
10 Downing Street
London
SW1A
Private Secretary
(a) is essential, and Land Caithness would like to add (b), (c) and (d).
Please let me know if you would like us to prepare a revised version of the original letter.
HKD $26/13.
Woox, HICD
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PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO HONG KONG: 4-5 SEPTEMBER 1991
I wrote to you about this visit on 23 August.
now add four updates or glosses on that letter:
May I
(a) Vietnamese migrants. The Foreign Secretary has
now decided that he should make strenuous efforts with
the Vietnamese (and Americans) over IMCs and that we
should not return the double-backers until this process
is complete, one way or the other. The reference to Hong
with double-backers. Kong's readiness to proceed by the week beginning
23 September should therefore be deleted and the point
about our efforts to get IMCs agreed moved up and
strengthened;
(b) MFN. As the Prime Minister may be aware from his
talks with President Bush, MFN renewal is not yet in the
bag: in saying that it is likely to be renewed we should underline likely;
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