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AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO ASIAN COUNTRIES:

29 JANUARY to 15 FEBRUARY 1984

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1. Mr Hawke's forthcoming journey has now developed into a wide-ranging tour of the region. He arrives in Hong Kong on 29 January, goes to Tokyo on 31 January, and to Osaka on 3 February. He then travels to Seoul on 4 February, and to Peking on the 7th. On the 11th, he travels to Shanghai, and on the 12th Singapore. On the 14th he travels to Kuala Lumpur, and returns to Australia on the 15th or 16th.

2. As yet, final briefs have not been written, and Mr Hawke has not focussed fully on the issues that the trip will raise. In general, officials say that the main purpose of these visits will be to maintain contacts at the highest levels within the region. The trip will also provide a useful opportunity to follow up various particular items.

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3. Mr Hawke is being preceded, to those capitalist countries which he is visiting, by Ross Garnaut from his own office and John McDonnell of the Department of Trade. (They are also visiting Manila.) They will be discussing the possibility, which Mr Hawke raised in a speech in Bangkok on 22 November, of some form of regional coordination of approaches to a new round of multi-lateral trade negotiations. (This speech was reported in Bangkok's telegram 499, not to all.) Officials here are somewhat sceptical that the wide diversity of economies in the region will in fact permit sufficient common ground to be found for a coordinated approach, but this is seen here as a way of harnessing Australia more to the dynamic economic growth of many parts of the region. Depending on the results of the Garnaut/McDonnell mission, Mr Hawke may well pursue this idea in the capitals he visits.

4. Another major issue which will dominate Mr Hawke's mind, especially in Japan, China and Korea, will be regional security. Mr Hawke, according to the Australians, went out of his way at CHOGM to support the argument, previously advanced by the Japanese, that INF negotiations in the European theatre could not ignore the east, and that it would not be satisfactory if SS20 missiles were simply moved to face Japan and China. In addition, the Australians are worried about increasing tension on the Korean peninsula. They see themselves as more and more

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