TNAG-0527-FCO40-622-Visit-of-James-Callaghan--Secretary-of-State-for-Foreign-and-1975 — Page 26

RR HONG KONG

GR 250

DESKBY 2409C8Z

CYPHER CAT/A

DESIBY

FM TOKYO 24053OZ

CONFIDENTIAL

DESKBY 24090WZ

ADVANCE COPY

IMMEDIATE

Ad FED

12

HJHKIND

Hd News D

Ps PSA PLS n. Male

TO IMMEDIATE FCO TELNO 1017 OF 24 OCTOBER 1975, REPEATED FOR

INFO TO ROUTINE PEKING AND HONG KONG...

YOUR TELS NO 695 TO PEKING AND 881 TO TOKYO:

SECRETARY OF STATE'S VISIT TO FAR EAST.

x

Dív

x24/10

1. THE JAPANESE DO NOT OBJECT TO AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DATES FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S VISIT TO TOKYO IN REPLY TO MR ADLEY'S PQ ON 29 OCTOBER. BUT FROM THEIR POINT OF VIEW THIS IS PREMATURE AS THEY WOULD NORMALLY WAIT UNTIL ABOUT A MONTH BEFORE THE VISIT. THEY WILL NOT, THEREFORE, MAKE ANY ANNOUNCEMENT THEMSELVES, BUT IN REPLY TO QUESTIONS WILL CONFIRM THAT THE DATES ARE CORRECT. THEY MAY ALSO HAVE TO ADD THAT THE VISIT WILL TAKE PLACE SUBJECT

TO THE CONVENIENCE OF THE PICT, WIOJE STEERING COMMITTEE WOULD NORMALLY BE CONSULTED, AS THE VISIT FALLS DURING THE NEXT REGULAR

SESSION OF THE DIET THE PRESENT (EXTRAORDINARY) SESSION HAS NO

COMPETENCE TO CONSIDER THE HATTER.

2, THE MEA HAD NO COMMENT ON THE TEXT OF THE PROPOSED REPLY TO THE PQ BUT ASKED THAT, SHOULD IT BE ALTERED IN ANY WAY, THE REFERCHCES TO THE VISITS TO CHINA AND JAPAN SHOULD BE KEPT PARALLEL, JE IF PRECISE DATES WERE GIVEN FOR ONE THEY SHOULD BE GIVEN FOR THE OTHER, AS IN THE PRESENT TEXT. THEY WOULD LIKE ¡PAEDITE CONFIRMATION WIEW THE ANSYOP HAS. BEFN GIVEN, INFORMATION ABOUT ANY RELEVANT SUPPLIMENTARLEG.

AND

HỊỀM

#

3. THE JAPANESE ATE NEMUSITIVE ABOUT MOVING TP MAY SUGGEST THAT THT YIGIT TA JAD 13 AD WORCIDADE TO THAT TO CHINA, WOULD IT

THEREFORE BE WISEN T

TO PHU TOGETHER THE SECOND AUD THIRD SENTENCES