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18 August 1986

GUANGDONG

NUCLEAR PROJECT:

POSSIBLE VISIT ΤΟ HONG KONG

BY LORD MARSHALL

1.

Thank you for your

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2.

We have consulted

Hong Kong and Peking on Lord Marshall's helpful offer to stop over in Hong Kong at

the end of October to help reassure Hong Kong people about the risks of nuclear power.

3.

Hong Kong are inclined to share our view that on balance a high profile visit by Lord Marshall would not fit in well with the measured course we and Hong Kong are now trying to pursue in order to calm down opinion in the territory: and that it might in fact provide a further conspicuous target on which the anti-Daya Bay Lobby - if then still active could focus tefforts.

4.

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Peking advise that Lord Marshall is

is known

known and well-respected in China, and that the Chinese would undoubtedly welcome any contribution he could make towards reassuring Hong Kong opinion. But Peking also share our view that

end-October timing proposal for

the visit is unlikely to be of much help in this regard.

On balance therefore we are inclined to suggest Marshall's offer should be politely declined, on the basis that the timing would be wrong

5. that Lord primarily

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