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Tuesday 28 July

Lunch and afternoon

Evening

The Secretary of State does not want to stay for a meeting with EXCO followed by a press conference that morning. If a meeting with some of EXCO is not possible the evening before, the Secretary of State would be prepared to stay in Hong Kong long enough to have an informal breakfast with them.

He wants to go to Kuala Lumpur during the morning of 28 July. I think there is a one hour time difference between Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur so a 3 hour flight which took off at 9.30 would get to Kuala Lumpur at noon.

Tälks with the Malaysian Foreign Minister, talk with Dr Mahathir, and calls on one or two other Malaysian Ministers if possible.

Dinner hosted by the Malaysian Foreign Minister as suggested.

Wednesday 29 July

am

Lunch

pm

Visit to somewhere outside Kuala Lumpur for two or three hours, somewhere which gives him some feel of what will be a new country. I am not sure that a British industrial investment of the Forestry Research Institution of Malaysia would be quite right. Could Duncan Slater have another think, please?

Would it be possible for the return official meal to be over lunch (instead of dinner as suggested by the High Commissioner)?

One or at the most two calls on Malaysian Ministers in as much as this had not been fitted into the first day. A couple of hours should be kept free during the afternoon, ahead of the night flight.

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