CONFIDENTIAL
VISIT OF THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER
10-14 OCTOBER 1978
PERSONALITY NOTES
Brief No 3
HUANG HUA
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
the Chinese Communist Party.
Member of the Central Committee of
Huang was born in 1913 in Hopei province. He was a student at Yenching University in Peking. He spent most of the war years in the Communist Headquarters in Yenan. Since 1949 Huang's career has been in the Diplomatic Service. He was Chief Chinese Representative at talks on Korea (Panmunjom in 1953), and he attended the Geneva Conference on Indo-China in 1954; the Bandung Conference; and a session of the Warsaw talks with the Americans during the Quenoy crisis in 1958.
Between 1954 and 1959 he was Head of the West-Europe and African Department and then of the Western European Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has been Ambassador to Ghana (1960-65), to the United Arab Republic (1966-69), and to Canada (1971-72). Between November 1972 and November 1976 he was China's permanent representative to the United Nations in New York his return to China he became Minister of Foreign Affairs. a member of the Party's Central Committee and is a delegate to the National People's Congress (China's parliamentary body).
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He has earned himself a reputation as a tough and skilful negotiator. During his tour of the United Nations he showeû himself to be a highly competent and self-confident operator who was generally respected and well liked. He speaks English well. He is married to Ho Li-liang (gv).
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