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planning purposes I suggest we offer a meeting at, say, 1730 which we could bring forward if the Council discussions finished early. As regards participants, I would propose to support the Secretary of State. We do not believe that it would be necessary to have a Hong Kong Government representative:
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9. If the Secretary of State is content with these arrangements, I recommend that we put in a bid with the Chinese quickly, to maximise the chances of pinning Qian down. I suggest that this should be done in Peking, but with parallel action in New York to start work on the local logistics.
10. On public presentation, I propose that we should take the line once a meeting has been fixed that the presence of the two Foreign Ministers in New York was a good opportunity for them to meet in order to review Hong Kong, bilateral and international issues, bearing in mind the commitment in the Airport MOU to meet twice a year, and the fact that the last meeting was in September 1992. If we are asked why no Hong Kong Government representative will participate, we could say that the meeting will be covering a number of issues and that in any case the relevant people from Hong Kong Government will be in Peking for the talks there.
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