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MDLIAN

AUSTRALIANS INVITE CHINA, TAIWAN AND HONG KONG AS OBSERVERS TO THE FIRST MEETING. CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER QIAN HAD LEFT THE AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER WITH THE IMPRESSION AFTER THEIR BILATERAL IN PARIS THAT CHINA WAS NOT EXPECTING AN INVITATION TO

THE NOVEMBER MEETING. THEY MIGHT THEREFORE NOT TAKE UP AN INVITATION TO ATTEND AS AN OBSERVER WHICH WOULD BE A NEAT WAY OF SQUARING THE CIRCLE.

FALL

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MAIN

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DISTRIBUTION

85

.ASIA/PACIFIC ECONOMIC

LIMITED

ERD

SPD

HKD

FED

NAD

SEAD

ECD (E)

PLANNERS

ECONOMIC ADVISERS

NEWS D

PS

PS/MRS CHALKER

PS/MR MAUDE

PS/LORD BRABAZON

MR BAYNE

MR GILLMORE

MR CARRICK

MR KERR

MR MCLAREN

ADDITIONAL

5

MR A HUTTON, EEP/DTI

MR J M BOWDER, OT4/DTI

MR WJ HALL, OT2/DTI

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MR ACS ALLAN, IF/HMT MR P EDMONDS, IF2/HMT

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