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related to the importance of maintaining international confidence in Hong Kong. I should be grateful for a draft contribution from HKD. Similarly there are likely to be additional points on arms proliferation issues which the Japanese could convey. NPDD may wish to consider. My final thought relates to the environment. I am aware that ESED are about to undertake their own lobbying visit to Peking. It might however be helpful to engage some Japanese support. Could ESED consider this urgently.
urgently. There may be other subjects which we could mention, perhaps on development: in the Soviet Union. No doubt we should also put it to the Japanese that continuing reminders to the Chinese about human rights and about North Korea nuclear would be valuable.
4. I should be grateful if you could now coordinate this exercise with a view to sending a message to the Japanese, if possible by the end of this week, though this could slip to Christmas Eve or even to 31 December. Much will depend on whether this needs to be approved by the Secretary of State himself.
5. If the other departments are confident that the substance of any issue is unlikely to change much between now and the end of the year, there would be considerable logistic advantage in sending a message before Christmas. Clearly the Soviet issue is unlikely to stand still, but most of the others seem to meet this criterion.
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