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CYPHER /CAT A & BY BAG
PRIORITY FOREIGN OFFICE AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE TO BERNE AND TO
CERTAIN OTHER MISSIONS
TELEGRAM NUMBER 375
23 JULY 1968
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Classe ser (699) onwards
ADDRESSED TO BERNE TELEGRAN NO 375 OF 23 JULY AND TO SOFIA BUDAPEST BUCHAREST PRAGUE WARSAW COPENHAGEN THE HAGUE HELSINKI OSLO PARIS STOCKHOLM BELGRADE CAIRO COLOMBO KABUL KATHMANDU DELHI RAWALPINDI KAMPALA NAIROBI LUSAKA RABAT VIENTIANE KHARTOUM MOGADISHU REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO PEKING HONG KONG DAR ES SALAAM WASHINGTON AND MOSCOW AND SAVING TO BAGHDAD.
MY TELEGRAM NO 373: BRITISH MISSION IN PEKING.
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THE CHINESE CAN BE SHOWN TO SET GREAT STORE BY NORMS OF DIPLOMATIC PRACTICE WHEN IT IS IN THEIR INTEREST. YOU MAY FIND THE FOLLOWING. SPECIFIC EXAMPLES USEFUL:-
(A) SOVIET UNION,
(1) NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY REPORTED FROM MOSCOW ON 21 MARCH, 1967, THAT THE CHINESE ACTING CHARGE D'AFFAIRES HAD BEEN CALLED TO THE FOREIGN MINISTRY REGARDING THE SOVIET EXPULSION OF TWO CHINESE DIPLOMATS. CONTRASTING SOVIET AND CHINESE BEHAVIOUR, THE CHARGE STATED THAT ALL CHINESE ACTIONS WERE QUOTE IN ACCORD WITH INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE AND THE NORMS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW UNQUOTE. (11) ON 18 JULY, 1967, THE CHINESE DELIVERED A PROTEST IN MOSCOW ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF THE CHINESE EMBASSY. THEIR STATEMENT POINTED OUT QUOTE THAT THE CHINESE EMBASSY IS A DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVE MISSION SENT TO THE SOVIET UNION BY GREAT SOCIALIST CHINA ENJOYS DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES FULLY GUARANTEED IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS UNQUOTE.
(B) BURMA.
(1) CN 28 JUNE, 1967, A CHINESE VICE-MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. SUMMONED THE BURMESE AMBASSADOR TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF THE CHINESE EMBASSY IN RANGOON. HE SAID THE BURMESE HAD QUOTE GROSSLY VIOLATED THE ACCEPTED PRINCIPLES GUIDING INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS UNQUOTE.
(11) ON 1 JULY, 1967, THE BURMESE AMBASSADOR WAS AGAIN SUMMONED AND TOLD THAT IN RANGOON THE QUOTE CHINESE EMBASSY'S DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES WERE BEING CRUDELY VIOLATED UNQUOTE.
(C) TUNISIA,
THE CHINESE DELIVERED, A PROTEST TO THE TUNISIAN GOVERNMENT ON
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