CONFIDENTIAL
FM UKDEL TOKYO
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 011
OF 071248Z JULY 93
AND TO IMMEDIATE OTTAWA
CONFIDENTIAL
9
037526 MDHIAN 7939
int sup; ри
HICD 021/7
RECE
GRJU! 1993
INFO IMMEDIATE EC POSTS, UKMIS GENEVA, HONG KONG, PEKING
INFO IMMEDIATE OTHER G7 POSTS, UKREP BRUSSELS, PRETORIA, LAGOS
FROM PRIVATE SECRETARY
FOREIGN SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH CANADIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, TOKYO, 7 JULY :
SUMMARY
1. IN HIS FIRST MEETING WITH THE FOREIGN SECRETARY, BEATTY COMES ACROSS AS FRIENDLY, QUICK-WITTED AND HUMOROUS, WELCOMING GUIDANCE ON SOME OF THE TRICKIER DOSSIERS. THE DISCUSSION COVERED BOSNIA, HONG KONG, NIGERIA AND, BRIEFLY GATT, RUSSIA AND UKRAINE.
DETAIL
2.
THE FOREIGN SECRETARY HAD HIS FIRST BILATERAL WITH THE CANADIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IN THE MARGINS OF THE G7 SUMMIT ON 7 APRIL. HE BEGAN BY CONGRATULATING BEATTY ON HIS APPOINTMENT. HE HOPED THAT THEY WOULD MAINTAIN THE PRACTICE HE HAD DEVELOPED WITH BARBARA MACDOUGALL OF KEEPING IN REGULAR CONTACT, OFTEN BY TELEPHONE, TO SUPPLEMENT THE FORMAL
CONSULTATIVE MACHINERY BETWEEN THE EC AND CANADA. CANADA INTERNAL
3.
BEATTY SAID THE ELECTION WOULD PROBABLY BE AROUND THE TIME OF LABOUR DAY. THE NEW MINISTERIAL TEAM WANTED TO HAVE SOME TIME TO ESTABLISH THEMSELVES BEFORE THE ELECTION WAS CALLED. THE GAP IN THE POLLS WAS NOW NARROWING AND THE CONSERVATIES WERE KEEN THAT THE IMPROVEMENT IN THEIR RATINGS SINCE THEIR CONVENTION SHOULD SOLIDIFY BEFORE THEY COMMITTED THEMSELVES TO AN ELECTION DATE.
BOSNIA