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restate their "requirements". final stage began (1985-86).

B

Micro-Negotiations

So the

THE PLAYERS

There were three levels of negotiations,

each conducted in its own distinct series

of contacts:

Commercial: EdF/Framatome

→JVC

JVC

French officials (DREE) → BOC

(a)

GEC

(b) Financial:

UK (PEP/ECGD)

(c)

cant against a background of the

→BOC

Political: not specific, but signifi-

negotiations for the Hong Kong

Agreement proceeding, and the PM's meetings in Beijing to sign the Treaty in May 1985. But the project was kept in political profile by reference in the growing number of Ministerial contacts that occurred

over the year.

Special features

(a) BOC role the focus of the finance

negotiations. What became apparent was that "as the financier of the project", they regarded themselves as the recipient of Anglo/French loans, which would then

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