TNAG-1465-FCO40-1992-Visits-by-Chinese-officials-to-the-UK--including-visit-by-Hu-1986 — Page 62

GRS 70

CONFIDENT FAL

FM HONG KONG

TO PRIORITY FCO

TELNO 1934

OF 21044OZ JUNE 86

CONFIDENTIAL

INFO PRIORITY PEKING, PARIS, ROME, BONN

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24 YOUR TELNO 574 TO PEKING (NOT TO ALL) VISIT OF HU YAOBANG :

PRESS COVERAGE

1. WHEN SIR R EVANS BRIEFED EXCO ON THE HU YAOBANG VISIT YESTERDAY,

MEMBERS EXPRESSED SOME CONCERN THAT PRESS COVERAGE IN THE UK MAY

HAVE BEEN COSIDERABLY THINNER THAN THAT IN CAPITALS OF EUROPEAN

PARTNERS. IT WOULD BE USEFUL IN THIS CONTEXT TO HAVE A BRIEF MEDIA

SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS FROM THE POSTS CONCERNED TOGETHER WITH YOUR

COMMENTS.

YOUDE

LIMITED

FED

HKD

PROTOCOL D

NEWS D INFO D

MR WILSON

COPIES TO:- MR WATTS GHF MR CRUICHSHANK

HKK 026/2

RECEIVEDT REGIS

2 4 JUN 1986

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