Plan for Vice Premier Li Xiannian to Receive and Dine with the Korean Government Delegation

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Plan for Vice Premier Li Xiannian to Receive and Dine with the [North] Korean Government Delegation

1. Time: 5:00 p.m., 3 August 1958 (The delegation arrived in Beijing that afternoon. [They] will first be received and then there will be a dinner.)

2. Location: Ziguang Pavilion

3. Banquet Style: Chinese food; five tables

4. Personnel from Both Sides.

(1) [North] Korean Side:

To attend the reception: Deputy Prime Minister Ri Ju-yeon [Ri Ju Yon] and all members of the delegation

To attend the banquet: Deputy Prime Minister Ri Ju-yeon and all fifteen members of the delegation; eleven diplomats and spouses above the level of commercial attaché from the [North Korean] embassy in China.

(2) Our [Chinese] Side:

To attend the reception: Minister Ye [illegible], Ambassador Qiao Xiaoguang, Vice Minister Zeng Yongquan, Vice Chairman Liu Mingfu, Deputy Director Zhang Shijie, Vice Chairman Zhang Youxuan, Office Director Biao Wen[illegible]

Vice Minister Lin Haiyun and two translators

To attend the banquet: About thirty people, including all of those attending the reception and directors and bureau chiefs involved in negotiations

5. Plans

1. Banquet seating

Foreign guests attending the banquet will arrive at Ziguang Pavilion at 6:45 p.m.

Our participants attending the banquet will arrive at Ziguang Pavilion at 6:40 p.m.

2. Take photos during the reception and banquet

(3) Issue a press release about the reception and banquet