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SECRET

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TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG

TELNO

OF 031626Z JUNE 93

INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG

YOUR TELNO 897: TALKS WITH THE CHINESE: STRATEGY

IMMEDIATE

1. Sir R McLaren's teleletter to Hum usefully establishes the parameters for the timing of rounds until the end of September.

We agree that it is sensible to think in terms of a recess from the end of the week beginning 21 July to the early part of the week beginning 6 September.

2.

In planning our strategy up

strategy up to the summer break, there are

two other relevant considerations:

The only possible date for a meeting of OPD (K) before the Tokyo Summit is Thursday 1 July. We have therefore reserved this date in Ministers' diaries on a contingency basis.

A visit by the Secretary of State to Peking would have to follow immediately after the Tokyo Summit, ie on 9 July.

3. Our strategy will need to take account of these dates. As

agreed

STRATEGY

HKD

PF RICKETTS

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