Reference...
RESTRICTED
understanding is that he will shortly be contacting Mr Patten to discuss this.
G7
7. Sir J Eberle had had a discussion in Tokyo with Owada who had voiced a complaint about the Japanese Political Director being excluded from non-economic policy discussions. I said that I thought that this was most unlikely. Was he by any chance referring to the Prime Minister's proposal to return to the Summits informal roots, as had appeared in the Financial Times article? He said that he was sure that this was something different. Could ERD throw any light on this?
Meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister
8. Sir J Eberle said that the meeting he and David Howell had had with the Japanese Prime Minister had gone extremely well. He had got the impression that Sir John Boyd's relationship with Miayazawa was very close (he even suggested that they had weekly meetings: I am afraid that I failed to disabuse him). He commented that the (rather bland) letter we had drafted from the Prime Minister had been just right.
Quality of Life Seminar
9. I told Sir J Eberle that the quality of life seminar was still on our agenda and that we had been discussing the possibility of it being mounted as a Financial Times conference. (I did not tell him but I have arranged an appointment next week to discuss the idea with Rosemary Yates of the Japan Advisory Service at Sheffield University in case the FT approach falls through).
10. Although Sir J Eberle's visit to Tokyo did not bring any substantial advances in our discussions on bilateral initiatives, the enthusiasm and momentum is still there. He has undertaken to show us drafts of the letters he will be writing to Tadashi Yamamoto and others to follow up the visit to Japan.
SR Sherrington
Far Eastern Department WH234
270 2956
26 October 1992
leteberle2310
CODE 18-77
CC:
Mr Hum
Mr Ricketts, HKD (for paras 2 and 3) Mr Tebbit, ERD
(for para 7)
Mr Fry, Tokyo by fax
RESTRICTED
L