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RESTRICTED
FROM PEKING 210715Z NOV 83
TO PRIORITY FCO
TELEGRAM NUMBER 1224 OF 21/11/83
REPEATED FOR INFO TO PRIORITY HONG KONG
YOUR TEG NO 704: CONSULAR AGREEMENT.
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1. WE SOUGHT A MEETING IMMEDIATELY ON RECEIPT OF TUR, BUT CONSULAR DEPARTMENT HAVE PUT IT OFF UNTIL NOW.
THE REASON SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN THE ABSENCE OF MADAME
XU ABROAD, AND THE DEPARTURE OF THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT, NIE GONGCHEN, TO BECOME AMBASSADOR TO AUSTRALIA.
2. HEAD OF CHANCERY MET MADAME XU THIS MORNING, 21 NOVEMBER.
THE CHINESE SIDE SAID THAT THEY COULD NOT ACCEPT THE TWO
FORMULAE FOR AGREED MINUTES WHICH GALSWORTHY
HAL PUT FORWARD AT THE MEETING ON 7 OCTOBER, SINCE THE CHINESE SIDE CONSIDERED THAT THE MATTER WAS
ALREADY ADEQUATELY DEALTH WITH IN THEIR PROPOSED ARTICLE 2. AFTER A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF STERILE ARGUMENT, GALSWORTHY DEPLOYED THE PROPOSED AGREED RECORD IN PARA 1 OF OUR TEL NO 994 AS AMENDED BY YOUR TUR. THE CHINESE REACTION WAS NOT VERY POSITIVE,
BUT THEY AGREED TO CONSIDER IT.
3. UN CONSULAR AREAS,
GALSWORTHY SAID THAT UNLESS
THE CHINESE SIDE WERE PREPARED TO INCLUDE ANHUT IN THE AREA OF THE BRITISH CONSULATE IN SHANGHAI, THE
BRITISH GOVERNMENT COULD NOT AGREE TO MORE THAN NINE
COUNTIES. THE CHINESE SIDE NOTED THIS.
HOWEVER, THEY AGAIN MADE IT CLEAR EY IMPLICATION THAT
IN THE END THEY WOULD ACCEPT NINE, IF THE BRITISH SIDE
COULD NOT GO BEYOND THAT FIGURE.
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