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ITE AND RETURN TO JAKARTA Y MOST
CONVENIENT POUTE (PREFERABLY BALFOUR
DEATTY HELICOPTER).
AFTERNOON
MR LUCE TO KUALA LUMPUR.
JAKARTA DURING WEEKEND
LORD REMNANT AND HIS MISSION ARRIVE IN
JAKARTA.
MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER
LORD REMNANT'S MISSION BEGINS.
5. I CAN SEE NO OBJECTION TO MR LUCE BEING IN INDONESIA ON
BILATERAL BUSINESS DURING THE JWP AND JUST BEFORE LORD REMNANT'S MISSION WHILE THERE WOULD BE CONSDERABLE ADVANTAGE IN HIS BEING ABLE TO VISIT YOGYA DURING THE JWP. HE COULD,
HE COULD, FOR EXAMPLE, HAVE SOME BRIEF INVOLVEMENT IN ITS DELIBERATIONS, EG MAKING A SPEECH AT THE OPENING CEREMONY AND ATTENDING THE FIRST SESSION, WHICH IS NORMALLY AN EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ON RECENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN EACH COUNTRY. THERE WOULD THEN BE POLITICAL ADVANTAGE IN HIS VISITING CENTRAL JAVA EVEN THOUGH A VISIT TO MRICA MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO FIT IN UNLESS WE CAN PERSUADE BALFOUR BEATTY TO PROVIDE A HELICOPTER. I WOULD SUGGEST IT WOULD ALSO BE WORTH CONSIDERING, IF ONLY AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING FCO/DTI RELATIONS WITH THE UK BUSINESS COMMUNITY OF MAKING THE ECONOMIC/ COMMERCIAL SECTION OF THE HOM CONFERENCE A MORE WIDE RANGING
DISCUSSION AND INVITING MR GRAHAM YOUNG AS CHAIRMAN OF SEATAG (AND POSSIBLY ALSO LORD, REMNANT IF HE CAN ARRIVE THAT EARLY) TO PARTICIPATE.
THE MAIN DIFFICULTY OVER THIS WOULD PROBABLY BE TO PERSUADE THE JWP TO OPERATE ON A FRIDAY/SATURDAY WHICH COULD CAUSE PROBLEMS
BOTH FOR THE MUSLIMS AND FOR THOSE WHO APPRECIATE THEIR WESTERN
STYLE WEEKENDS BUT I BELIEVE THE LURE OF HAVING MINISTER PRESENT
COULD OVERCOME THIS AND I SHOULD LIKE TO TAKE EARLY SOUNDINGS
OF FRANS SEDA. IF THIS DOES NOT WORK WE MIGHT REVERSE THE JWP
AND H OF M CONFERENCE DATES.
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