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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
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18 October 1985
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British Embassy, Peking.
D.G. Blunt, Esq.,
MKC 382/2 RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
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29 OCT 1985
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Dear Jans
ICAC : POSSIBLE CONTACTS WITH CHINA
You will remember our earlier correspondence on this. The Embassy kindly let the Chinese know that the ICAC was attending the Second International Conference on Corruption and Economic Crime against Government in October. You wrote on 1 April that the MFA welcomed the news and said that, should the Chinese authorities decide participate, their deiegation would welcome the chance of a bilateral chat in the margins.
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This letter takes the story a step further. At our request the organisers in New York sent an official invitation to the Chinese to participate. Word was subsequently received that a Deputy Director in this line of work, from Shanghai, would be attending. In the event Mr. Mao Beigen did not show up at the Conference and by the end of it no word had been received by the organisers. There has been some disappointment here at what was, in Hong Kong terms, a missed opportunity to talk about matters of mutual interest.
However this is not a major tragedy. While the Commissioner for ICAC does nct propose to make any further overtures at this stage, Our own door remains open: if the Chinese wish to make contact ICAC remain of course ready to respond. It may be that we shall get approaches from other parts of the Chinese machine (as for instance in the Procurator General's remark to Michael Thomas when you were on your recent talks and travels together). By the same token ICAC will be happy to respond to any reasonable approach from such quarters; if the Chinese want to make contact ICAC will be pleased to answer any questions the Chinese may have about their own organisation and legislation. You might like to bear this in mind. I suppose it is ruled out that the subject might pop up when the Chief Justice is in Peking.
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(J.D.I. Boyd)
Political Adviser
CC: W.G. Ehrman, Esq., FCO
C/ICAC
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