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1 October 1991
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MESSAGE FROM THE ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER
Specard Acviferí
I enclose a copy of a message to the
Prime Minister from Signor Andreotti 120m (ing
following the latter's visit to China.
The Prime Minister will want to send a substantive reply. I should be grateful for a draft to reach me by Friday 4 October.
Jour
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J. S. WALL
Richard Gozney, Esq., Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Italian Embaray.
14. Three Kings Yard, London, BA
30th September, 1991
Dear Mr
Well,
I
take
the pleasure in enclosing herewith
a text of
to
addressed
message
the Prime Minister, from the President of the Italian
Council of Ministers, Senator Giulio Andreotti, together with an unofficial
translation of the same.
I avail myself of this opportunity to send you my best regards.
Encs
Mr Stephen Wall, LVO
Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
(Overseas Affairs)
10 Downing St
London SW 1
дешь діт
ncerely
Livio Muzi-Faldoni Yentargé d'Affaires
UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION
Dear Mr Major,
In going over the exchange of correspondence we had soon after
your return from the Far East, I note that the considerations you drew
from your visit to China correspond, by and large, to the ones that I myself have drawn from my personal experience. I can also confirm
that in my talks with the Chinese leadership I expressed myself in accordance with the general lines outlined in my letter to you of the
12th September.
I now wish to draw your attention to some points which seem
to me to be of particular interest.
With regards to human rights, whenever my interlocutors hid behind the five principles of peaceful coexistence, I tried, patiently
but firmly, to make them understand that these have now been overtaken
by events and that there must be an upgrading in quality. In this
context we hope that the spirit of Helsinki becomes a value shared
by all continents. On several occasions I reiterated that there exist
some principles of
of respect of the human person which go beyond the
mere national context. It is moreover inconceivable, in today's world,
given the diffusion of the mass media, to hope that what happens in
a country does not have repercussions in another. I did not fail to
remind all my interlocutors, and especially Li Peng, Jaing Zemin and Yang Shangqkun, that the most recent events, and in particular those which have taken place in the Soviet Union, bear witness to the fact
that peace can only be preserved by governing by consensus and not
by the use of force.
Chinese reation to my arguments was the one we had foreseer.
and which is well know to you. However, I, like you, am convinced that the best way to help the Chinese people is to maintain a constant exchange of views with the top level leadership, which one day will surely have a concrete impact, notwithstanding the apparent "dialogue among deaf people" of the present moment.
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