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the Chinese offer of discussions to bring pressure on them to improve resources allocation to regulatory bodies. Discussions with Chinese will form a useful backdrop for specific PR activities such as an iwitation from EdF, but any mission from HK will not so much be interested in the French nuclear programme per se as in the technology transfer to Daya Bay. Therefore the mission should only take place when the French and Chinese can demonstrate that French operating standards etc will be followed in China. An alternative procedure (will be followed in China. An alternative procedure would be to hold

off specific missions until we were satisfied, following discussions with the Chinese, that we had covered adequately the whole safety canvass. (We could publicize the fact that tripartite discussions to review safety standards in the light of Chernobyl were taking place.) Then hold press conferences in eg Paris and Hong Kong, plus statements from the PRC, once a package had been hammered out. The disadvantage of this approach however is that it might take too long.

6. The aim at the meeting with the French should be to get their reactions to these ideas, plus any which HKG has in mind (we await a telegram from Hong Kong on HKG's proposals).

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23 June 1986