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GFS 760
EN CLAIR AND BY BAG
FM F C O 251546Z
UNCLASSIFIED
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TO ROUTINE CERTAIN MISSIONS AND DEPENDENT TERRITORIES TELNO
GUIDANCE 187 OF 25 JULY 1978.
EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON THE SUPPRESSION OF TERRORISM.
1. ON 24 JULY THE UNITED KINGDOM DEPOSITED ITS INSTRUMENT
CF RATIFICATION OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON THE SUPPRESSION
OF TERRORISM. THE CONVENTION WILL COME INTO FORCE FOR THE
UNITED KINGDOM THREE MONTHS LATER ON 24 OCTOBER. THE RATIFICATION
IS WITHOUT RESERVATION.
LINE TO TAKE.
2. WE SHOULD LIKE ALL COUNCIL CF EUROPE STATES TO BECOME PARTIES
TO THE CONVENTION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND WITHOUT RESERVATIONS. THE
UNITED KINGDOM PLAYED A MAJOR PART IN NEGOTIATING THE CCN-
VENTION WHICH MAY DE SEEN AS A REGIONAL EXTENSION OF THE
ARRANGEMENTS CREATED FOR DEALING WITH ACTS CF TERRORISH SET CUT IN THE HAQUE CONVENTION ON HIJACKING, THE MONTREAL CONVENTION WHICH DEALS WITH OFFENCES AGAINST AIRCRAFT AND THE NEW YORK
INTERNATIONAL PROTECTED PERSONS CONVENTION. THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON THE SUPPRESSION OF TERRORIS SUBSTANTIALLY EXTENDS ARRANGEMENTS UNDER THESE CONVENTIONS BY A) COVERING A KUCH WIDER RANGE OF OFFENCES: AND B) ODLIGING CONTRACTING STATES TO DISREGARD, FOR THE PURPOSES OF EXTRADITION BETWEEN THEM, THE POLITICAL ELEMENT IN SOME OF THE OFFENCES COVERED
BY THE CONVENTION.
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