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- 5 APR 1984
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Searcy of State.
FROM: R D CLIFT, HKD DATE: 3 April 1984
PS/Mr Luce
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Dr Wilson
Private Secretary
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PS/PUS
Sir P Cradock
Sir W Harding
Mr Chick, SPD
FUTURE OF HONG KONG: BRIEFING THE AUSTRALIANS
PROBLEM
1
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Should the Secretary of State agree to meet
Mr Hayden in Hong Kong on 18 or 19 April?
RECOMMENDATION
2.
I recommend that the Secretary of State need not meet Mr Hayden; but that in view of the previous difficulties over meetings with Mr Hayden the Secretary of State might undertake to send him a personal message giving his impressions of his visit to Peking and Hong Kong. I submit a draft telegram to Canberra. South Pacific Department concur.
BACKGROUND AND ARGUMENT
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3.
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Canberra telno 239 records that Mr Hayden will be in Hong Kong on 18 and 19 April, during the Secretary of State's own visit. Mr Hayden is not asking for a meeting; but the High Commission have been asked to convey the thought that he will be at the Secretary of State's disposal.
4.
It is increasingly likely, in the light of Chinese hints about meetings with senior leaders on the morning of 18 April, that the Secretary of State will not arrive in Hong Kong much before the late afternoon of that day. He will then begin an intensive programme. Most of his time is already accounted
Certain meetings (notably a potentially difficult encounter with EXCO on 19 April) will also require careful prior preparation with officials. In these circumstances it is difficult to recommend that in addition a meeting with Mr Hayden should be fitted in.
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5.
South Pacific Department point out however that we have a meagre record of exchanges with Mr Hayden (Mr Chick's minute of 3 April). They suggest that if a meeting should prove impossible we could fall back on the idea of a formal
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