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assumption that the Council meeting will take place as planned on 21 May. You should say that I hope it will be possible for Qian
to attend the meeting in New York, and refer to the commitment in
the Memorandum of Understanding, signed by the two Prime Ministers in Peking in September 1991, in which we undertook that the two Foreign Ministers would meet twice a year. You should
say that I envisage a meeting covering Hong Kong, bilateral and international issues: that I suggest we
that I suggest we set aside 90 minutes in
and
order to have a full discussion.
4. For UKMIS New York. Please take parallel action with the
Chinese Mission to put them on notice of our proposal for a
bilateral. We leave it to you to decide with the Chinese where
the meeting should be held.
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