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SUBJECT:
YOUR VISIT TO THE SUB CONTINENT AND HONG KONG
CAVEAT.
1. We have given considerable thought to your
proposed visit next month to the Sub Continent and
Hong Kong. It goes without saying that we welcome
this proposal as do the posts concerned whom we have
consulted. But the timing causes us some difficulty
and, before going on leave, Geoffrey Howe asked me to
write to you seeking your agreement to postpone your
visit, if only by a few weeks, and giving you our
reasons for asking this of you.
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2.
As you know from personal experience our relations
with India are going through a bad patch mainly due to
Indian insistence that we are working directly against
their interests by harbouring known Sikh terrorists.
In an effort to defuse the situation (and to outflank an
influential core of hostility towards Britain at official
level in the Indian MEA), Geoffrey suggested on his
April isit to India
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