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CONFIDENTIAL

RECORD OF A MEETING BETWEEN

THE PRIME MINISTER

AND

CHAIRMAN DENG XIAOPING

AT

THE GREAT HALL OF THE PEOPLE, PEKING

ON

19 DECEMBER 1984, AT 4.00 P.M.

493

HKK

0440/57

PRESENT:

The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher FRS, MP, Prime Minister

The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Howe QC, MP, Secretary of State

for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Sir Richard Evans KCMG, HM Ambassador, Peking

Sir Percy Cradock GCMG, Deputy Under Secretary of

State, FCO

Sir Edward Youde GCMG, MBE, Governor of Hong Kong

Mr F E R Butler, Principal Private Secretary to the

Prime Minister

Dr D C Wilson, Assistant Under Secretary of State, FCO

Mr R J T McLaren, CMG, Assistant Under Secretary of State,

FCO

Mr C D Powell, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister

Mr B Ingham, Chief Press Secretary to the Prime Minister

Mr L V Appleyard, Principal Private Secretary to the

Secretary of State

Mr C J Meyer, Head of News Department, FCO

Mr P A B Thomson, Counsellor, British Embassy, Peking

Mr H L Davies, Commercial Counsellor, British Embassy, Peking

Mr WG Ehrman, First Secretary, British Embassy, Peking

Mr P F Ricketts, Private Secretary to the Secretary of State

Miss A L Batty, Attache, British Embassy, Peking

Mr Y P Cheng, Interpreter

HE Mr Deng Xiaoping, Chairman of the Central Advisory Commission

of the Chinese Communist Party

HE Mr Ji Pengfei, State Councillor

HE Mr Wu Xueqian, State Councillor and Foreign Minister

HE Mr Zhou Nan, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

HE Mr Jia Shi, Vice-Minister of Foreign Economic Relations

and Trade

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