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GRS 150

CONFIDENTIAL

FM HONG KONG

TO IMMEDIATE TOKYO

TELNO 003

OF 09100OZ MAY 86

CONFIDENTIAL

TOP COPY

FOLLOWING FOR GOMERSALL FROM BOYD.

GOVERNOR'S VISIT : CALLS ON JAPANESE MINISTERS.

MIGHT WE HAVE YOUR HELP AGAIN? THE JAPANESE CONSUL GENERAL

TELEPHONED IN A STEW THIS AFTERNOON TO SAY THAT THE EMBASSY'S NOTE

VERBALE TO THE GAIMUSHO YESTERDAY DID NOT CORRESPOND IN ALL RESPECTS

WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CALLS MATSUURA HIMSELF HAD EARLIER

PUT TO TOKYO, NAMELY FOR PM PLUS FOREIGN MINISTER, FINANCE MINISTER, MITIN MINISTER, ECONOMIC PLANNING AGENCY MINISTER AND MR. ESAK. THE

EMBASSY'S NOTE HAD OMITTED FM AND EPA. THE MINISTRY WERE PUZZLED

AND MATSUURA HIMSELF CONSIDERABLY EMBARRASSED.

2. MOST GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD POUR A L'ITTLE OIL ON THESE TEMPORARILY AGITATED WATERS. AM NOT SURPRISED AT SOME DISCREPANCIES, GIVEN

THE VARIETY OF INPUTS TO WHICH YOU (AND WE) HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED. ON

THE ACTUAL CALL, MATSUURA SAID THAT THERE WAS NOT MUCH PROGRESS.

HOWEVER THE EPA MINISTER HAD NOW AGREED TO SEE SHR E. YOUDE AT

15.40 ON 26 MAY AND MR. ESAKI REMAINED IN PROSPECT FOR THE LUNCH ON

27. THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS WERE STILL HANGING FIRE.

3. AM SEENING MATSUURA AND THE TDC AT 1600 LOCAL ON 12 MAY. PERHAPS

YOU WOULD FEEL LIKE GIVING THE GAIMUSHO, AND ME, A BUZZ BEFORE

THEN?

YOUDE

MINIMAL

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HKK 0261.4 RECEIVED IN REGISTRY

14 MAY 1986

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