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07 JAN 1993
Mr Morris FED
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From: J T Masefield
Date: 5 January 1993
REGISTRY
Action Taken
cc: Sir J Coles
Mr Logan
Mr Hum
Mr Crawford, Eastern Dept Mr H Davies, 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
1..
AN.
Many thanks for sending me a copy of your minute of 4 January to Mr Crawford in Eastern Department about Mr Ratiani's renewed suggestion of talks on Asia Pacific subjects. As it happens, Sir J Coles, Mr Hum and I discussed Mr Ratiani's original proposal, and a parallel suggestion by Mr Galitsin, made to Mr Holmes in SAD, about talks on South Asia, at our regular meeting on 5 January.
2. We agreed in principle that there were a number of issues on which it would be useful to have a dialogue with the Russians. We thought that it made sense to bring together the range of Asian and Pacific topics, and in order to get someone with a sufficient degree of geographic spread, seniority, and perhaps political flexibility, it might be sensible to offer to have the talks at DUS level. Sir J Coles would be happy to lead a small team to Moscow or to receive one or more Russians here.
3. In the light of responses to your minute of 4 January, and coordination of ideas for some indication of the sort of agenda that we might suggest, the next move might be to ask the Embassy in Moscow to consult the Foreign Ministry there, while keeping Mr Ratiani and Mr Galitsin in the picture here. Mr Galitsin said specifically that he had already discussed the idea of talks informally at Under-Secretary level in Moscow.
J. F. Waghald.
J T Masefield