CONFIDENTIAL
FM LISBON
TO PRIORITY FCO
TELNO 200
OF 141041Z JULY 89
CONFIDENTIAL
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INFO PRIORITY HONG KONG, PEKING, PARIS
INFO PARIS FOR SECRETARY OF STATE PARTY
JULY
MY LETTER OF 11 JULY TO MARTIN (JLG, HONG KONG):
MACAO
1. ARTICLE IN 'DIARIO DE NOTICIAS' OF 14 JULY CLAIMS THAT PORTUGUESE-CHINESE JLG WILL MEET ON 31 JULY IN MACAO WITH PEDRO CATARINO (EX PORTUGUESE CONSUL-GENERAL IN HONG KONG) TAKING PLACE OF SIMOES COELHO AS LEADER OF PORTUGUESE DELEGATION. PRESIDENT'S CHEF DE GABINETE (BARATA) TOLD ME MUCH THE SAME ON 11 JULY.
2. HOWEVER, WHEN I SPOKE ON 14 JULY TO PRIME MINISTER'S DIPLOMATIC ADVISER (MARTINS DA CRUZ) HE CLAIMED THAT THE DECISION WHETHER TO HOLD THE MEETING WAS ONE STRICTLY FOR THE PRIME MINISTER AND NOT THE PRESIDENT, AND THE PRIME MINISTER HAD NOT YET MADE UP HIS MIND. MARTINS DA CRUZ HIMSELF HAD PROPOSED THAT THERE BE A PRIOR, INFORMAL MEETING BETWEEN THE CHINESE AND PORTUGUESE, PROBABLY IN LISBON, ΤΟ DECIDE WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE JLG. THE PRIME MINISTER WOULD THEN DECIDE IN THE LIGHT OF THIS INFORMAL MEETING. MARTINS DA CRUZ TOLD ME THIS IN VERY STRICT CONFIDENCE, WHICH SHOULD BE SCRUPULOUSLY PRESERVED.
3. MEANWHILE GRATEFUL TO KNOW IF ANYTHING SUBSTANTIVE ON MACAO WAS
DISCUSSED AT BILATERAL WITH PORTUGUESE FOREIGN MINISTER ON 11 JULY
IN PARIS.
DRACE-FRANCIS
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