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YOUR TELS NOS 213 TO LISBON AND 514 TO HONG KONG AND HONG KONG TM

TEL NO 8860: HONG KONG AND MACAU

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FOLITICAL DIRECTOR AND OTHER OFFICIALS WHO ACCOMPANIED FOREIGN MINISTER TO LONDON LUNCHED WITH ME TODAY. I GAVE VILLAS~BOAS

DOCUMENTS LISTED IN PARA 1 OF YOUR TEL NO 213 AND SPOKE TO HIM AGAIN IN TERMS OF PARA 2 OF THAT TELEGRAM, GIST OF WHICH I HAD

ALREADY GIVEN HIM IN LONDON,

VILLAS-BOAS SAID THAT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE CHINESE IN PARIS

WERE CONTINUING BUT THAT POSITION REMAINED EXACTLY AS IT WAS WHEN

SA MACHADO TALKED TO YOU ON 30 JUNE, PORTUGUESE HAD NOT YET DECIDED WHETHER TO RESPOND TO CHINESE PROPOSAL ABOUT MACAU AND; IF SO, IN WHAT TERMS.

3. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTION OF ANY CONFUSION IN PORTUGUESE

MINDS BETWEEN TAIWAN AND MACAU AS SUGGESTED IN PARA 3 OF YOUR TEL

NO 122. PORTUGUESE SAY THAT AT THE PARIS TALKS CHINESE BEGAN

BY REFERRING TO THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT. STATEMENT OF 6 JANUARY 1975, REPORTED IN CLARK'S LETTER TO MARCH, FAR EASTERN DEPARTMENT OF FOLLOWING DAY. THE CHINESE SAID THAT THE PART OF THIS STATEMENT

REFERRING TO TAIWAN (IE RECOGNISING THAT IT WAS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA) WAS SATISFACTORY BUT THAT THEY HOPED

THAT THE PORTUGUESE WOULD BE PREPARED TO CO A LITTLE FURTHER

THAN THEY HAD GONE IN THAT STATEMENT ON MACAU (WHEN THEY HAD SAID

THAT IT COULD BE THE GUBJECT OF NEGOTIATIONS AT A MOMENT CONVENIENT TO THE TWO GOVERNMENTS) THEY HAD EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT THE PORTUGUESE WOULD NOW RECOGNISE THAT MACAU WAS CHINESE TERRITORY

THOUGH THEY DID NOT REPEAT NOT ASK THAT SUCH RECOGNITION SHOULD

BE MADE PUBLICLY OR FOR EXAMPLE INCLUDED IN THE EVENTUAL COMMUNIQUE

ABOUT THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BUT APPARENTLY IMPLIED THAT THEY MIGHT WANT TO USE IT WHEN THE TIME WAS RIPE,

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