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INFO PRIORITY PEKING, HONG KONG, UKREP JLG HONG KONG, MOSCOW INFO PRIORITY WASHINGTON, PARIS, OTTAWA, BONN, ROME

JAPAN/CHINA: NON-PROLIFERATION: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY EXPORTS

1 DURING HIS TALKS WITH US ON 3 AND 4 JUNE, ΜΙΥΑΜΟΤΟ

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(DIRECTOR CHINA AND MONGOLIA DIVISION MFA) MENTIONED THAT THE JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER HAD WRITTEN TO LI PENG ABOUT INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ON ARMS CONTROLS. THE LETTER HAD

ASKED CHINA:

(A) TO COMPLY WITH INTERNATIONALLY AGREED PRINCIPLES ON THE PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS: AND SPECIFICALLY TO COOPERATE WITH THE AUSTRALIA GROUP GUIDELINES.

(B) PUBLICLY TO EXPRESS ITS SUPPORT TO THE MTCR GUIDELINES

(C) TO COOPERATE WITH INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS TO CONTROL THE

TRANSFERS OF CONVENTIONAL ARMS

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MIYAMOTO SAID THAT THIS HAD BEEN THE FIRST TIME JAPAN HAD ASKED CLEARLY ''WITHOUT VAGUENESS'' FOR CHINESE COOPERATION IN SUCH A MATTER. IN MIYAMOTO'S SUBSEQUENT CONTACTS WITH THE CHINESE, THEY HAD SAID THAT THEY HAD APPRECIATED THE LETTER, WHICH HAD APPARENTLY SET THE PROPOSAL IN THE CONTEXT OF KAIFU LOBBYING THE US ADMINISTRATION OVER THE RENEWAL OF MFN STATUS (THOUGH NOT, HE EMPHASISED, AT US REQUEST). THE CHINESE HAD GONE ON TO SAY THAT THEY COULD AGREE TO SUPPORT THE MTCR GUIDELINES AND IN FACT PROPOSED TO GO FURTHER AND SUGGEST A STRENGTHENING OF THEM. JAPAN HAD NOT SO FAR RECEIVED A FORMAL REPLY BUT MIYAMOTO WAS CONFIDENT THAT IT WOULD BE ''POSITIVE HE EXPECTED THAT THE JAPANESE WOULD GET THE ASSURANCES THAT THEY HAD SOUGHT WHEN MR KAIFU VISITED PEKING IN AUGUST.

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