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5.
Mr.
Rubin
asked the Governor
what
he had thought of the
President's reaction to his pitch on MFN. The Governor replied
that the President had been courteous
listening
che
Governor's public pitch and sympathetic to his private pitch. seemed clear that the President did not want to Lave 2 Cow with Congress on the issue, nor, if he could help it, with China.
SH
was looking for a route that would be consistent with his pre election undertakings, while not setting China on an impossible
task.
7. Finally, Mr. Rubin's aide asked the Governor whether he would attend an APEC Heads of Government meeting in the late autumn if one were held after the APEC Ministerial meeting planned for early November. The Governor said that this was the first he had heard of the proposal. But if he were not travelling elsewhere and it was genuinely a Heads of Government meeting, he could not see why His he should not attend given Hong Kong's membership of APEC. final decision would depend partly on what, if any, constitutional problems remained with China at that time.
c.c. CS
FS
STI
PA
PS/GI
IC
Mr. Llewellyn
c.c. Mr. Pattison, BE, Washington
Mr. Wiggham, HKETO
Mr. P Ricketts, HKD, FCO
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