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FM PEKING

TO PRIORITY FCO

TELNO 247

OF 200646Z FEBRUARY 86

INFO PRIORITY HONG KONG

FOR HONG KONG DEPARTMENT

HONG KONG FOR GOVERNOR

YOUR TELNO 135: WU XUEQIAN

HKK 027/4

STHY

20FEB 1986

1:

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1. IT OUGHT TO BE POSSIBLE TO FIND OUT ABOUT WU'S TRAVEL PLANS BEFORE THE END OF JULY WITHOUT GIVING THE GAME AWAY.

2. THOMSON WILL BRING UP THE SUBJECT OF THE TRAVEL PLANS OF LEADERS, INCLUDING WU, AT THE MEETING OF EC POLITICAL COUNSELLORS ON 25 FEBRUARY. THE SUBJECT IS PERMANENTLY ON THE COUNSELLORS' AGENDA.

3. SHALL BE SEEING A GOOD DEAL OF PEOPLE FROM THE MFA DURING SIR

WILLIAM HARDING'S FORTHCOMING VISIT TO PEKING. I SHALL FIND OUT AS MUCH AS I CAN ABOUT WU'S TRAVEL PLANS, USING AN ENQUIRY ABOUT WHETHER HE IS LIKELY TO ACCOMPANY HU YAOBANG TO LONDON IN JUNE AS MY

CARD OF ENTRY.

4. I WILL REPORT THE OUTCOME AT THE END OF NEXT WEEK.

EVANS

LIMITED.

HKD

FED

PS

PS/MR RENTON. PS/PUS

SIR W HARDING. DR. WILSON.

THIS TELEGRAM WAS NOT

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