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From: S Swift

Far Eastern Department

Date: 20 January 1993

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Sir J Coles

Mr Logan

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Ms Duffield, Eastern Dept

Mr Morris, FED

Mr Stewart, SEAD

Mr Fraser, NPDD

Mr J Morris, HKD

Mr Holmes, SAD

Mr Holmes, SPD Mr Hook, NAD Mr Wye, RAD

TALKS WITH THE RUSSIANS ON ASIA PACIFIC ISSUES

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I refer to your minute of 5 January to Mr Morris. Ms Duffield (who succeeded Mr Crawford in Eastern Department) agrees that it would be useful to hold talks on the Asia Pacific. She suggested that such talks would be most valuable if the range of topics is limited to those of greatest interest/importance.

2. The next step is to draw up a suitably concise agenda which the Embassy in Moscow can put to the Russians. I suggest the following headings but would be grateful for your thoughts and those of copy addressees:

i)

China - effect on China's foreign policy of rapid economic development and increasing trade relations;

- border disputes

North Korea

nuclear capability

Territorial disputes

Mongolia

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Arms sales to the region

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Hong Kong

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Central Asia (included at the request of Eastern Dept)

viii) Japan's role in regional security

Mrs S Swift

Far Eastern Department

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