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MEETING BETWEEN THE GOVERNOR AND DR. HENRY KIGGINGER ON 6 MAY IN NEW YORK

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The beginning of the meeting, the Governor and Dr. Kissinger exchanged their personal vicwo on the aituation regarding Bosnia.

with regard to the renewal of MFN, the Governor aadd his impression was washington DC had not had enough timo to consider the issues yet. He thought the US Administration might work on" taking the initiative away from Mitchell and Pelosi, and resort to the use of all Executive Order.

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The Governor aleu said that he felt Congressmen such as Rostenkowski and Hamilton were somewhat frustrated that the President had not been taking u fud their offers of taking the leadership on the MFN issuo but instead had allowed Mitchell and Peloci to run away with their bill. Others, such as Ruhin, were too concerned with the trade deficit with China. The

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said that he found it difficult to consider how the US dould have tight conditions on MFN renewal which would not hurt Hong Kong.

Dr. Kissinger said that Washington DC did not really understand the conditioning for MFN renewal. President Bush could have made a deal with Congrepc but inotcad had relied on a Fresidential vetn. He agreed with the Governor that zoma proliferation and oth

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demvat co domply with. If such conditions were Light, China might react strongly and this would only make the Chinese more difficult and turn the relationship bad again.

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