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FM PEKING

TO IMMEDIATE FCO

TELNO 1675

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OF 151224Z SEPTEMBER 86

INFO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG

INFO PRIORITY PARIS

585

YOUR TELNO 984: NUCLEAR SAFETY: CHINA

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1. CALLED ON ME ZHAORONG, HEAD OF THE WESTERN EUROPEAN DEPARTMENT OF THE MFA, ON 15 SEPTEMBER, ACCOMPANIED BY CALDER. * LEST COPIES OF MY SPEAKING NOTE AND OF THE NO.10 PRESS COMMUNIQUE

WITH HIM.

2. ME EXPRESSED HIS THANKS FOR THE MESSAGE, WHICH UNDERLINED THE CLOSE CROPRATION BETWENN THQ TWN SILES IN CALMING INT-NUCLEAR

SENTIMENT IN HONG KONG WITH REGARD TO DAYA BAY. THE CHINESE SIDE

ALSO REGARDED THE UMELCO REPORT AS POSITIVE. IT WAS HIS

UNDERSTANDING THAT CHINA WOULD INDEED GIVE SERIOUS CONSIDERATION TO THE SEFETY ASPSCTS RAISED BY THE REPMRT.

3. THE LEGCO MISSION WOULD, MEN SAID, BE GIVEN A WARM AND FRIENDLY RECEPTION AT A HIGH LEVEL. THE VISIT WOULD ALSO PLAY A POSITIVE

NZMURTHER CALMING ANTI-NUCLEAR SENTIMENT AND IN CHECKING THE

ARTI-EHUUCLEAR MOVEMENT.

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4. ME ESPECIALLY WELCOMED THE EFFORTS OF BRITISH CABINET MINISTERS

IN ALLAYING FEARS IN HONG KONG. THIS WAS WHAT CHINA HAD HOPED FOR.

HE UNDERTOOK TO PASS THE MESSAGE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO THE THE

LEADERSHIP OF THE MFA, ZHOU PING AND LI PENG.

EVANS

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