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Mr Colvin, SEAD

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Malaysia: Derrick Gregory and the QBP

The Secretary of State has seen your submission of 2 June. The Secretary of State recognises that Mr Spreckley would not be able to cancel the QBP but he thinks that it would be right to postpone it if Mr Gregory had been executed on or just before the day of the party. Mr Spreckley should, therefore, be given the authority he seeks to postpone the QBP (even if in practice it was not subsequently reinstated). The Secretary of State thinks it would be open to Mr Spreckley to explain to the Malaysians that the QBP was not being postponed as an act of disapproval but simply because it would not be seemly to hold such a party just after the execution of a British national.

9 June 1989

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Mr Gillmore

Mr McLaren

Mr Smallman, Protocol

Mr Harrison, Consular Dept

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