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PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO THE FAR EAST: SEPTEMBER
1. PROBLEM
To advise No 10 which routes the Prime Minister's aircraft
might take, outward and return, on her visit to the Far
East in September.
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2.
ARGUMENT
We have assumed that the Prime Minister wishes to complete
the flights to and from the Far East as quickly as possibl
This is the sense of Mr Coles's letter to Mr Richards of
21 January (copy attached).
(a) The Outward Route
The shortest route to Tokyo, the first point on the Prime
Minister's tour, from London is via Moscow. A transit
stop there might permit a meeting with a Soviet leader.
similar to the one the Prime Minister had with Mr Kosygin
en route for Tokyo in June 1979.
However, Anglo-Soviet
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