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From the Private Secretary

Dear Peter

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10 October 198

Tel sont 12/10/84

HONG KONG:

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Thank you for your letter

your Tetten o

9 October about the signature of the Hong Kong agreement.

The Prime Minister agrees that Sir Richard Evans should speak to the Chinese in the terms proposed in your letter. But I think it would be wise to stop short of a firm commitment. "The Prime Minister intends, if circumstances permit, to go to Peking herself

"' would serve.

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onseel.

youz dije

صفا

CHARLES POWELL

Peter Ricketts, Esq.,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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