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anxieties, I am sure that other members of the Party

would insist upon our being thoroughly briefed and

armed on this topic, in relation to all the Amnesty

and other reports so familiar to people like Levin.

As we mentioned on Friday, it will be essential to

have a clear prior plan for handling this issue, so that

we can try to make the Press dance to our tune rather

than vice-a-versa. I have not (so far) departed from our

provisional view that we should not visit Tibet this time around, but give clear and public notice of our intention to do so on a subsequent visit; and use this visit as an

occasion for identifying and discussing certain specific

Tibet-based agenda items, to be addressed more fully on

the later visit.

I hope you may think this clear statement of my present instinct helpful to those who are trying to

produce a fuller appraisal of the problem.

Again, very many thanks for giving us the opportunity of such a helpful discussion.

yous

Scotty

Sir John Coles, KCMG

Deputy Under-Secretary of State Foreign and Commonwealth Office King Charles Street

London SW1