CONFIDENTIAL
ZCZC
CONFIDENTIAL
FM FCO
TO DESKBY 180001Z PEKING
TELNO
OF 171248Z MAY 93
AND TO IMMEDIATE UKMIS NEW YORK
INFO DESKBY 180001Z HONG KONG
INFO IMMEDIATE UKREP JLG HONG KONG
DESKBY
FOLLOWING FROM HUM (AUSS)
SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING AT FOREIGN MINISTER LEVEL: 21 MAY:
PROPOSED BILATERAL WITH THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER
1.
It is still not certain that the Security Council meeting at
Foreign Minister level will take place on 21 May. If it does,
the Secretary of State will attend. Before we received your
telnos 665 and 666 with Qian's reply to the Secretary of State's
recent message, we had consulted the Secretary of State about a
bilateral with Qian. The Secretary of State has decided that,
given the heavy load of Bosnia business, there will not be time
full bilateral with Qian on 21 May (the Secretary of
State's programme means that he can only spend the day of 21 May
in New York). But he is willing to have a short talk with Qian
in the margins, to reinforce the main points on Hong Kong.
2.
BILATERAL
HKD
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