FIDENTIAL
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TO IMMEDIATE PEKING
TELNO 399
OF 251733Z JUN 93
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INFO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG, TOKYO
INFO PRIORITY UKREP JLG HONG KONG
FOR AMBASSADOR FROM HUM, AUSS
HONG KONG FOR DINHAM, GOVERNMENT HOUSE
POSSIBLE VISIT BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE: 9 JULY
1.
When we spoke on the secure telephone earlier TODAY undertook to let you have further information on planning for THE possible visit to Peking by the Secretary of State on 9 July.
2.
As I thought, the Private Office already have provisional bookings (under pseudonyms) for a visit in and out within the day, using JAL and Thai Airlines. These would allow time for a single, fairly substantial, session of talks, which is all We need on what we are billing as a transit stop. In addition the Secretary of State has said he would like to spend half an HOUR in the Forbidden City.
3.
1000
On that basis the timings might look as follows: depart Tokyo by JAL
Lunch on aircraft
arrive Peking
1315
1415 or
1430
talks at the Diaoyutai
1630 or 1645
talks end
1700 to 1730
1810
4.
Forbidden City
Leave Peking by Thai airlines for Bangkok.
This would mean that the Secretary of State travelled directly from the airport to the talks (you would brief him en route) and back directly from the Forbidden City to the airport. Presumably the Chinese Would provide outriders etc to speed HIS
way.
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