From: The Prime Minister
To: His Excellency Mr Toshiki Kaifu KBE,
Prime Minister of Japan.
I am pleased to be able to take the opportunity of
Lord Young's meeting with you to convey to you my renewed
appreciation for all your efforts to make my visit to
Japan in September such a success.
As you know I attach great importance to developing close relations between our two countries. I very much
hope that we shall be able to renew our acquaintance when
you visit Europe in January next year. I should welcome
the opportunity to discuss a number of issues on which
there have been important developments since September.
One of these is of course Eastern Europe, where
events are moving with remarkable speed.
This poses a great challenge to the West. I should like, in this
context, to thank you for your letter of 22 November
setting out your Government's very welcome proposals for
assistance to Poland and Hungary. It is important that
we help sustain the movement towards democracy in Eastern
Europe.
In the longer term this will help build peace
and stability in the region and spread democracy world
wide. I hope that Japan will continue to contribute generously to our joint Western efforts to this end.
We also discussed Hong Kong when we last met. I am
very pleased that your Foreign Minister, Mr Nakayama, has
since been able to visit Hong Kong and demonstrate
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