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necessary

to

Contracting

ensure

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far

as possible

that

those

Parties either agree, or at least acquiesce.

In the opinion Of the

British side, the best method for

securing this objective would be as described in para. 7 of

the paper handed to the Chinese side on 15 March 1989.

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