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..In Confidence
PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT: ASIA
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agreed
CAVEAT.
In your letter to
of 6 November you said
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that very shortly before the Prime Minister's visit
to Peking is announed we should give notice of this to
the governments in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
The Foreign Secretary recommends that as the announcement
on 28 November
is likely to be made (soon our posts should now be sent
instructions, on the lines of the enclosed draft telegram.
This telegram would be followed by a triggering telegram
once the date of the announcement is decided]
The decision of the Prime Minister to visit China to
sign the Treaty will come as no surprise to Dr Mahathir
and his colleagues, nor are they likely to be offended
that the visit should now preceed one to South East
Asia. We know, too, that neither the Malaysians nor
Indonesians would have wanted a visit to their countries
to be linked to one to China, particularly as the latter
/would
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