GRS 500
CONFIDENTIAL
FM PEKING
TO PRIORITY FCO
SIC
TELNO 2093
CONFIDENTIAL
OF 28093OZ NOVEMBER 86
INFO PRIORITY HONG KONG
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REGISTRY
Action Taken
YOUR TELNO.1391: WU XUEQIAN.
1. I SPKE TO WU XUEQIAN, OUT OF THE HEARING OF OTHER AMBASSADORS, FOR ABOUT TEN MINUTES AT MY DINNER PARTY FOR HIM ON 27 NOVEMBER.
2. 1 TOLD WU THAT YOU WERE VERY MUCH LOOKING FOWARD TO SEEING HIM IN THE UNITED KINGDOM NEXT YEAR AND HOPED THAT THIS WOULD BE DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR. WU SAID THAT HE HAD NOW MADE PLANS TO VISIT POLAND, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, BULGARIA, WEST GERMANY, ITALY AND SWITZERLAND DURING MARCH. HE WAS GOING TO WEST GERMANY BECAUSE GENSCHER HAD BEEN INSISTENT THAT HE SHOULD GO THERE SOON.
3. I ASKED WU WHETHER HE WOULD BE ABLE TO ADD A FEW DAYS IN THE
1 "I WILL THINK ABOUT UNITED KINGDOM TO THIS PROGRAMME. HE REPLIED:
IT."!
I ASKED HIM WHETHER THERE WAS ANYTHING TO PREVENT HIM FROM GOING TO THE UNITED KINGDOM AT THAT TIME, HE REPLIED THAT THE TIMING WOULD BE DIFFICULT. HE HAD TO BE BACK IN PEKING BY 26 MARCH, WHEN THE PRESIDENT OF CAMEROON, ACCOMPANIED BY HIS FOREIGN MINISTER (WHOM
IN ANY CASE HE WU HAD NOT YET MET), WAS DUE TO ARRIVE IN CHINA.
HE WAS VERY WANTED TO HAVE PLENTY OF TIME IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. MUCH LOOKING FORWARD TO THE VISIT AND WOULD NOT WISH TO HAVE A TIGHTLY PACKED PROGRAMME.
ABOUT
WU
4. I TOLD WU THAT I THOUGHT YOU WOULD WANT TO TALK TO HIM, HONG KONG AND OTHER MATTERS, BEFORE THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR. SAID THAT HE HAD RECENTLY HAD A LETTER FROM YOU. IN IT, YOU HAD SUGGESTED CONTINUED CONTACT ABOUT HONG KONG. HE WOULD WELCOME THIS, BUT HAD DOUBTS AS TO THE FEASIBILITY OF VISITING THE UNITED KINGDOM BEFORE THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR.
5. I THEN TOLD WU THAT YOU MIGHT VISIT JAPAN DURING THE SPRING, PERHAPS IN MAY. I THOUGHT, SPEAKING PERSONALLY, THAT YOU MIGHT WISH TO SUGGEST A STOPOVER IN PEKING BEFORE OR AFTER A VISIT TO TOKYO IF IT TURNED OUT THAT A VISIT BY WU TO THE UNITED KINGDOM WAS REALLY
WU SAID THAT THIS NOT POSSIBLE DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR. WAS AN INTERESTING IDEA.'
6. I SPOKE TO WU AS INSTRUCTED ABOUT VISAS AND CLAIMS. HIS INTERPRETER TO TAKE NOTE.
HE ASKED
COMMENT:
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