GVM 026/17
HKK 02
REGIF'VED IN REGISTRY
29 SEP 1986
TACAK OFFICER
UNDEX
PA
ction
AB 29/0
Private Secretary
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лужбам A Lust 1991,
(85)
W Thomas
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FROM: B B LOW, MVD
DATE:
CC:
5 SEPTEMBER 1986
PS/Lady Young
PS/Mr Renton PS/Mr Eggar PS/PUS
Sir W Harding
Dr Wilson Mr Barrington
Heads of:
SAD
HKD News Dept
MR WADDINGTON'S VISIT TO HONG KONG: 21-27 SEPTEMBER 1986
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1.
Mr Waddington's Private Secretary wrote to you on
9 July seeking the Secretary of State's agreement that
Mr Waddington should visit the Sub Continent (Pakistan,
India and Bangladesh) and Hong Kong in September.
In your
interim reply of 22 July, you said that we were consulting
posts and that you would write again when they had responded.
2.
Ministers subsequently decided to ask Mr Waddington
either to omit the Indian leg of his tour or to delay the
whole tour by some weeks. This was in order to give
Mr Renton a clear field for his intended first visit to
India in early October as the Secretary of State's Special Representative to the Indian Government. Lady Young wrote.
to Mr Waddington in this vein on 15 August and Mr Waddington
has now replied, on 29 August, to the effect that he fully
understands and informing her that he has decided not to
visit the Sub Continent at all at this time but only
Hong Kong where he intends spending the week 21-26 September.
3. Mr Waddington's main purpose is to study the refugee
question.
His Private Office has been warned that he should
/also
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.