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RECORD OF A MEETING BETWEEN THE DEFENCE SECRETARY
AND THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF GENERAL STAFT OF THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY IN TBE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AT 1115 ON MONDAY 2ND JULY 1979
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Present:
The Rt Hon Francis Pyin MP
Secretary of State for Defence
Sir Neil Cameron
Chief of Defence Staff
Sir Ronald Ellis
Head of Defence Sales
Air Marshal
Sir Frederick Sowery Ministry of Defence
Mr B M Norbury
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Colonel M W Jenkins
Defence Attache, Peking
Mr JD Gutteridge
PS/Secretary of State
Mr Yang Yong
Deputy Chief of General Staff, People's Liberation Army
Mr Chai Chengwen
Director of Foreign Affairs Bureau, Ministry of National Defence
Mr Wang Letian
Deputy Director, Equipment Division,
leadquarters
General Staff
Mr Chu Chi-yuan
Charge d'Affaires of the People's Republic of China
Mr Fang Weni
Military Naval and Air Attache, Embassy of People's Republic
of China
Mr Gu Jingshu Interpreter
1. The Secretary of State welcomed Mr Yang Yong saying that his visit was a sign of the improving relations between the United Kingdom and China. The new British Government attached importance to defence; it was primarily committed Lo NATO but
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