TELELETTER
TO:
PEKING
CONFIDENTIAL
MRS 091/301/1
CONFIDENTIAL
Акк HE AWLO
INDLY
30 APR 1979
No 730.4
27 April 1979
FOLLOWING FOR T J B GEORGE, PEKING
FROM MR MORLAND, MAED/FCO
COPY (BY BAG): DR WILSON, HONG KONG
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YOUR TELELETTER OF 23 APRIL:
SHIPPING
1. Thank you for this interesting report.
2. We agree that next step should be for your to pursue
the exchange of letters with the Department of Foreign Trade.
The Chinese have now had some time to consider our proposal
on equitable participation which was first put to them in
February before Mr Varley's visit (your tel 212 of 14 Feb).
We should therefore like some indication of whether the
Chinese are prepared to accept the principle of an understanding
on equitable participation in the trade.
3. We look forward to receiving your further comments and
recommendations on how to proceed with the Maritime Agreement.
As seen from here, Dong's comments are fairly encouraging
and we shall want to follow up fairly soon. But this should
probably wait until we have the Department of Foreign Trade's
reaction on the exchange of letters. But, if necessary,
you could say that once we have the Chinese reaction to our
proposal on equitable participation, we are ready to pursue
discussions on both the exchange of letters and the Maritime
Agreement as part of an overall package.
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