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I think that this may prove sufficient. In Seoul you will find little value in broadening the discussion beyond these issues. In Tokyo it would be possible for you to raise a multitude of wider issues within your responsibilities South East Asia, the developments in India, the Falklands, Central America - but you may wish to speak only in fairly general terms about these areas and concentrate detailed discussion on those matters which are both of prime interest to the Japanese and will have been the subject of your meeting with Ambassadors. If Tokyo or Seoul have further specific suggestions, we shall prepare briefing as appropriate.

III: FAR EASTERN AMBASSADORS' MEETING

4.

I also submit a draft teleletter to the three Ambassadors who will be attending the meeting in Tokyo. The purpose is to focus the minds of the recipients and to give them an opportunity for suggesting items of their own devising. The agenda as it emerges is loosely-structured and appears long, but much of the ground may be covered in informal discussion, for example on the Sunday.

IV:

WASHINGTON

5. We have heard from the Embassy in Washington that they are trying to arrange a meeting for you with Mr Wolfowitz, the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. They have asked for an agenda to put to the Americans. You will wish to discuss impressions of Japan and Korea, and this might head your list. SEAD and SPD have also suggested the following topics:

i)

ii)

Nuclear-free Pacific;

Security of small states;

iii) New Zealand and ANZUS;

iv)

The Pacific rim initiative;

v)

Single regional organisation for the South Pacific;

vi)

Whither the Philippines?;

vii) Prospects for Indo-China;

viii) Refugee matters.

This is probably over-long. Which would you like left out?

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Mark Elliott

Far Eastern Department