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FM FCO 1314OOZ JULY 84

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TO IMMEDIATE PEKING

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AND TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG

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YOUR TELNO 1395: FUTURE OF HONG KONG:

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VISIT OF SECRETARY OF STATE.

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1. The answers to your questions in paragraph 4 of TUR are:

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State proposed to arrive in Peking at 1700 on 27 July and leave

Peking for Hong Kong at 1300 on 31 July.

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(b) The Secretary of State would like to start work on the

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of 28 July.

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morning

(c) The Secretary of State wishes to restrict his visit to

Peking.

(d) The Secretary of State would like to see the same Chinese

Leaders he saw during his last visit (Deng Xiaoping,

Zhao Zigyng, Ji Pengfife and Wu Xueqian himself) in the same Order'.

2. The Secretary of State does does not wish to raise any

international or bilateral issues, but to deal only with the

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