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anxieties, I am sure that other members of the Party
would insist upon our being thoroughly briefed and
armed on this topic, in relation to all the Amnesty
and other reports so familiar to people like Levin.
As we mentioned on Friday, it will be essential to
have a clear prior plan for handling this issue, so that
we can try to make the Press dance to our tune rather
than vice-a-versa. I have not (so far) departed from our
provisional view that we should not visit Tibet this time around, but give clear and public notice of our intention to do so on a subsequent visit; and use this visit as an
occasion for identifying and discussing certain specific
Tibet-based agenda items, to be addressed more fully on
the later visit.
I hope you may think this clear statement of my present instinct helpful to those who are trying to
produce a fuller appraisal of the problem.
Again, very many thanks for giving us the opportunity of such a helpful discussion.
yous
Scotty
Sir John Coles, KCMG
Deputy Under-Secretary of State Foreign and Commonwealth Office King Charles Street
London SW1