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desire. That is why your visit now and others in both

directions in the future will be so important.

We

must get to know each other so well that if we have

differences we can discuss them as friends and that

when, as I hope will always be the case, we share

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important objectives we can work together even better

in order to achieve them. We have already arrived at

an excellent degree of understanding in many areas:

over the principal problems faced by the international

community, over Hong Kong, and over the degree to which

we can assist one another in many practical ways. То

me, your visit comes at a particularly auspicious time,

and I look forward to exchanging views with you on the major

issues which still need resolution: the Middle East,

African problems, East-West relations and disarmament.

But I hope that you will not keep such discussions for

formal occasions such as visits. I hope that when we

Finally, I would like to

have views to exchange we can do so regularly through

our respective Ambassadors.

repeat my pleasure and that of my wife that we are able

to welcome you to London.

your contacts with a very wide range of British people

from all walks of life while you are in this country;

and it goes without saying how much I look forward to

I hope you will enjoy

coming to China myself in order to meet you again there and

to learn something of your country's extraordinary

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achievements at first hand.

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