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CONFIDENTIÞAL

FM HONG KONG

TO HIMMEDIATE FCO

TELNO 1302

OF 010915Z MAY 86

INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING

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67) MY FOURTH HPT : SECRETARY OF STATE'S MEETHING WITH WU XWEQIAN

PRESS HANDLING.

1. WE SHALL NEED TO GIVE SOME THOUGHT TO THIS AREA. NOT

SURPRISINGLY, SINCE THE CHINESE ARE NOT AWARE OF OUR SPECIFIC

PURPOSE, THEY REGARD THE FACT OF THIS MEETHING AS LESS SENSITIVE

THAN WE DO. WE KNOW THAT THE MEDIA HERE HAS ALREADY PICKED UP FROM

SOURCES IN PEKING THE (GARBLED) STORY OF A FORTHCOMING MEETING

BETWEEN SECRETARY OF STATE AND WU HAN THE UK (MY TELNO 1209).

2. HF THE STORY BREAKS WE ASSUME NEWS DEPT WILL CONFIRM THE FACT ON

THE FOLLOWING LINES :

''THE SECRETARY OF STATE WILL BE LUNCHING WITH THE CHINESE FOREIGN

MINISTER IN BRUSSELS ON 23 MAY''.

3. THEY COULD ADD UNATTRIBUTABLY THAT IT WILL BE A BRIEF MEETING:

THAT IT PROVIDES A CONVENIENT OPPORTUNITY, SINCE THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND WU WILL BE IN THE SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME, TO EXCHANGE VIEWS ON A NUMBER OF SUBJECTS OF MUTUAL INTEREST TO

THE TWO GOVERNMENTS: AND THAT NATURALLY ONE WOULD EXPECT THIS TO

INCLUDE THE SITUATION HN HONG KONG, FOLLOWING THE FIRST YEAR OF

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE JOINT DECLARATION.

4. WE WILL NEED TO BE INFORMED IMMEDIATELY ANYTHING #S SAMID ON

THESE LINES. IF WE RECEÈNE ENQUIRES FÖRST WE SHALL OF COURSE

REFER THEM TO NEWS DEPT. THIS WILL PUT THE MEETING IN A SINO-BRITISH

RATHER THAN A HONG KONG CONTEXT.

YOUDE

HONG KONG AGREEMENT: RESTRICTED

LIMITED

HD/HKD

HD/FED

(REPEATED AS REQUESTED}

COPIES TO:

MR FIFOOT, LEGAL ADVISERS MR WOOD LEGAL ADVISERS

RESEARCH D (FE)

DEP/HD PUSD PS/MR RENT ON MR WILSON

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- 9 MAY 1986

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