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TO TELELETTER HONG KONG
TELELETTER NFR
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AND TO TELELETTER PEKING
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FROM P F RICKETTS, HKD
TO PETER LAI, CAB HONG KONG
TO SIR R MCLAREN, PEKING
HONG KONG MODULES FOR ROUND 14
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1. Many thanks for copying to me your teleletters of 15 October, with modules for the next Round. I have now seen Robin McLaren's comments in his teleletter of 18 October.
2. I agree with all of Robin's comments on your highly workmanlike drafts. I only had a couple of extra thoughts of my
own.
3. First, you say in the second tiret of para three of the EC module that it was a Chinese proposal to return the first three sectors of the EC from the FCs. I'm not sure that if we were pressed we would be able to point to a specific Chinese proposal to that effect. I have not, I fear, had time to check. But as I recall it, they said something vague, which we interpreted as such a proposal. To avoid an argument, could we not just say that we have agreed to consider using the FCs for this purpose?
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Second, I thought that the presentation of the various moves in your para 8 could be improved to make them look a bit more attractive to the Chinese, and to clarify the conditionality which I found a bit confusing. The first point in your para 8 is not really a move, but more a consequential tidying-up. I don't think it needs to be made conditional on anything. The second two are both directly related to the status of NPC members, SO could be put together under one chapeau. I suggest that the right conditionality point for such a chapeau should be that we would make/recommend these moves provided that the Chinese side
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