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YOUR TEL NOS 71 AND 79 : VISIT BY HU YAOBANG

1. WE HAVE ACTED ON PARAGRAPH 1 AND THE LAST TWO SENTENCES OF PARAGRAPH 5 OF YOUR FIRST TUR. THE MFA HAVE SAID THEY WILL LET US HAVE THE DETAILS REQUESTED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

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I AGREE THAT THE GUIDING PRINCIPLE FOR THE VISIT SHOULD BE BROAD COMPARABILITY WITH ZHAO'S VISIT. I KNOW (EG FROM THE YUGOSLAY AMBASSADOR, WHO MET HU FOR AN HOUR LAST WEEK) THAT HU LIKES TO BE REGARDED AS ONE OF CHINA'S TOP THREE LEADERS AND NOT JUST AS THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE PARTY. I THINK THAT THE QUEEN SHOULD MEET HU, FOR THIS REASON AND BECAUSE THE QUEEN WILL PROBABLY MEET HIM WHEN SHE IS HERE IN OCTOBER (HU HAD A ONE HOUR MEETING WITH REAGAN DURING THE LATTER'S VISIT IN 1984 SEMICLN AND HUA GUOFENG, AS PARTY CHAIRMAN, HAD A MEETING WITH QUEEN MARGRETHE OF DENMARK WHEN SHE VISITED CHINA IN 1979). THERE IS ALOS THE FACTOR THAT HU RANKS ABOUVE ZHAO IN CHINESE PROTOCOL.

3. AS TO THE OVERALL SHAPE OF HU'S PROGRAMME, I WOULD SUGGEST TWO DAYS IN LONDON AND ONE DAY ELSEWHERE. THIS WOULD ALLOW TIME FOR HU TO MEET SENIOR FIGURES IN GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC LIFE OUTSIDE GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECOTR. BESIDES HIS MEETINGS WITH THE PRIME MINISTER, I SUGGEST THAT HE SHOULD HAVE SEPARATE MEETINGS WITH THE SPEAKER, LEADERS OF THE OPPOSITION PARTIES, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CBI AND (PERHAPS) THE CHAIRMAN OF THE TUC. FOR HIS DAY OUTSIDE LONDON, I WOULD SUGGEST OXFORD, TO VISIT THE UNIVERSITY, PERHAPS WITH A VISIT TO HARWELL ON THE WAY THERE OR BACK.

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