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North America. We would be very keen to include Mexico in the Tour because of the growing ties between Mexico and the USA, especially NAFTA, and the growing hispanic influence in the USA. We were very disappointed by the
of the outright refusal Am ssador in Mexico to accept a visit this year, on the grounds of no Mexican place on the RCDS Course. You may recall that the matter of reciprocity was taken up with your PUS, at the last College Advisory Board Meeting, and we sincerely hope that our bid will be given more positive consideration this time despite the unliklihood of Mexico gaining a place on the Course in the near future. Should neither Mexico nor our preferred reserve, Cuba, be acceptable then we would restrict the Tour to USA/Canada as this year.
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Middle East. The inclusion of Saudi Arabia meets both MOD FCO wishes, expressed during staffing of this year's proposals, that we should include a Gulf State in this Tour. Should Saudi Arabia not be acceptable we would prefer Oman to Qatar/Bahrein which was also suggested this year.
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North Europe. We are naturally very keen to return to Russia as soon as possible and earlier discussions with DA Moscow have been encouraging for 1993. He also suggested that we might wish to include Byelorus since he covers there as well.
as well. We do not believe that Russia (perhaps including Byelorus) could be covered in less than 10 days. Following the 1990 Tour, it was agreed that Germany should be given 9/10 days, and this year's North Europe Tour would therefore be restricted to just 3 countries.
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South Europe. Following 2 consecutive late cancellations by Algeria, we do not believe that we can maintain a cohesive Mediterranean Tour covering 2 South European and 2 North African countries without returning to Morocco in consecutive years. We therefore
South Europe
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wish propose concentrate on countries surrounding the Balkans area.
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5. Africa. EC bans notwithstanding, we wish to visit South Africa as soon
soon as possible; we ask again this year in the hope that progress on re-instating links might be made in the very near future.
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Far East. China, with Japan, remains the major influence in the region and again, EC bans notwithstanding and recent problems over Hong Kong, we wish to include a visit as possible. If this were possible, we would restrict the Tour to just 3 countries. We have again included Vietnam high on reserve list and were disappointed at the Ambassador's refusal to accept a visit this year,
visit this year, having been given earlier very informal indications that a visit might be possible. Please note that if China and Vietnam are not available, and bearing in mind that return visits to Thailand or the Philippines might not be welcome so soon after this year, the pool of countries to choose from becomes extremely limited. Any further constraints could lead to diffulties in finding a fourth country in the package.
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