August 23, 1991
Dear Prime Minister,
The incident in the Soviet Union that we talked over
on the telephone last Tuesday has reached a welcome denouement in the form that the constitutional order was recovered and that President Mikhail Gorbachev finally made a safe return to Moscow.
Now I strongly hope that
the Soviet leadership will again resolutely take the
course of Perestroika and actively pursue the goal of New Thinking Diplomacy in its foreign relations.
In the telephone conversation with you, I did not
have chance to touch upon my recent official visit to China and Mongolia. Now I would like to write to give you a general account of my visit on August 10 to 14 for the reference of your coming visit to China.
In China, I met with Premier Li Peng and also had opportunities to talk with General Secretary Jiang Zemin and with President Yang Shangkun.
During my talk with Premier Li Peng in particular, I referred to the issue of Hong Kong, emphasizing the importance for Hong Kong to continue to enjoy its current economic freedom and to maintain its prosperity and stability on the basis of the UK-China Joint Declaration and the Basic Law. The Chinese side in reply expressed its hope that Hong Kong should develop and further
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