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CALL BY NEW ZEALAND MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON THE SECRETARY OF STATE, THURSDAY 13 OCTOBER 1983

ESSENTIAL FACTS [NOT FOR USE]

A. Future of Hong Kong

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The Secretary of State is aware of the background to

the future of Hong Kong. The fifth round in the second

phase of Sino-British talks on this subject will take

place in Peking on 19/20 October.

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B. Briefing the New Zealanders

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The Prime Minister has agreed that we should keep the

New Zealanders generally up to date at a high level, as we

do in the case of the Australians and Canadians and, to a

greater extent, the Americans. Accordingly, Mr Whitney

briefed Mr Cooper and Mr Templeton (Deputy Secretary

the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs) during his

visit to New Zealand in late September (see Wellington.

telno 280 attached). The New Zealand MFA had recently

been showing renewed interest in Hong Kong, both here and

in Wellington. Like the Australians, they have a regional

It may well be that they had already received

at third hand some of the details which we had been

interest.

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