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REGARD THIS AS ALARMING AND IRRESPONSIBLE.
16. WE CLEARLY NEED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO OVERCOME THESE DIFFICULTIES AND TO INDUCE A MORE CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH FROM THE CHINESE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BEFORE THE NEXT ROUND OF TALKS. SINCE THE GUANGDONG SIDE HAS INVOKED THE CENTRAL AUTHORITIES AND THE NCNA, WE THINK IT APPROPRIATE TO TAKE THIS UP WITH THE NUCLEAR STEERING COMMITTEE OFFICE. WE WOULD BE GRATEFUL IF PEKING COULD BE AUTHORISED TO DO THIS AND MIFT CONTAINS POINTS TO MAKE.
17. WE ALSO CONSIDERED CONVENING ANOTHER DELEGATION MEETING, BUT WE FEEL THAT WE SHOULD KEEP THIS SHOT IN OUR LOCKER FOR THE TIME BEING, ESPECIALLY, SINCE IT PROVED EFFECTIVE PREVIOUSLY, BUT ONLY AFTER THE GROUND WAS WELL PREPARED IN PEKING. WE HAVE CONCLUDED, THEREFORE, THAT WE SHOULD TRY TO GET THE CENTRAL AUTHORITIES TO EXERT SOME PRESSURE ON GUANGDONG:
A) TO IMPLEMENT THE OFF-SITE ARRANGEMENTS ALREADY AGREED; AND
B) TO BE A LITTLE MORE FLEXIBLE ABOUT ON-SITE ARRANGEMENTS,
IN PARTICULAR THE (FOR US UNACCEPTABLE) PROPOSAL TO REPORT
THROUGH NCNA.
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