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expressed interest in the idea, and has asked to see

Sir Fred Warner to discuss it further when the latter is on

leave. Sir Fred Warner arrives in the UK on 19 June and

will call on Mr Healey on the 28th.

4.

During Mr Miki's visit to this country in May he

suggested that Mr Crosland might visit Japan in 1975 to

inaugurate an annual series of Anglo/Japanese Ministerial

Consultations on the environment. Mr Miki has now written

to Mr Crosland formally putting this proposal to him.

Mr Crosland will reply, accepting the invitation in principle

but leaving the dates to be settled later. Mr Haskell's

submission of 13 June refers.

5. You may also recall that the Japanese Prime Minister,

Mr Tanaka, expressed the hope that the Prime Minister would be

able to visit Japan when they met at President Pompidou's

funeral in Paris on 6 April. The Prime Minister said that he

would like to visit Japan again in due course. No action on

this has, however, yet been taken, nor is any contemplated in

the near future. Consequently, we have made no reference to

it in the completed proforma.

CHINA

6. The Chinese issued their invitation to the Minister of

Posts and Telecommunications in the last Government as a return

for a visit to this country in August 1971 by Mr Chung Fu-hsiang

then Director (now Minister) of Telecommunications.

We regard

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