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TO DESKBY 18070OZ BTC HONG KONG

TELNO 78

OF 180508Z APRIL 89

INFO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG

INFO ROUTINE FCO

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PEKING TELNO 623 (NOT TO BTC HONG KONG).

FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE.

HKB 011/3

1. GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD CONVEY THE FOLLOWING TO THE

COMMITTEE'S CLERKS.

2.

PIFA PASSED US A COPY OF THE PROGRAMME FOR THIS VISIT

ON 18 APRIL. TEXT IS IN MIFT. IN ADDITION TO MEETING

THE COMMITTEE ON ARRIVAL AND HOSTING A RECEPTION AND DINNER ON 22 APRIL, I PROPOSE TO ACCOMPANY THE COMMITTEE ON THEIR CALLS ON VICE-MINISTER FOR FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS AND TRADE SHEN JUEREN, VICE-FOREIGN MINISTER ZHOU NAN AND VICE- CHAIRMAN OF THE N P C STANDING COMMITTEE LIAO HANSHENG.

(I.E. THERE ARE THREE MINISTERIAL LEVEL CALLS IN ALL).

I SHALL ALSO ATTEND THE WELCOME BANQUET HOSTED ON 23 APRIL BY PRESIDENT OF PIFA HAN NIANLONG. PIGOTT, FIRST SECRETARY CHONG KONG AFFAIRS), WILL ATTEND THE COMMITTEE'S CALL ON LI HOU. IN MY ABSENCE OUTSIDE PEKING ON THE AFTERNOON OF 25 APRIL MISS BAILES (POLITICAL COUNSELLOR) WILL ACCOMPANY THE DELEGATION TO THE AIRPORT.

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SINCE THERE IS A GAP IN THE PROGRAMME LATE ON THE MORNING OF 25 APRIL, I PROPOSE THAT THE WASH-UP SESSION BE HELD AT 1130 HOURS THAT MORNING OVER COFFEE AT THE RESIDENCE. I SHOULD BE GRATEFUL IF THE COMMITTEE'S CLERKS COULD CONFIRM THAT THIS IS ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMMITTEE.

4.

TO AID A SMOOTH DEPARTURE AND TO ALLOW THE COMMITTEE MORE TIME AT THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN ON 25 APRIL, RIORDAN (LIAISON OFFICER) WILL COLLECT THE COMMITTEE'S LUGGAGE, PASSPORTS AND TICKETS PRIOR TO THEIR DEPARTURE AT 1430 FROM THE JIANGUO HOTEL. THE LUGGAGE WILL THEN BE CHECKED IN WHILE THE COMMITTEE ARE SIGHTSEEING, AND THE PASSPORTS, TICKETS AND BOARDING PASSES WILL BE RETURNED TO THE COMMITTEE ON THEIR ARRIVAL AT THE AIRPORT.

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