GPS 760
EN CLAIR AND BY BAG
FM F C O 251546Z
UNCLASSIFIED
TO ROUTINE CERTAIN MISSIONS AND DEPENDENT TERRITORIES TELNO GUIDANCE 107 OF 25 JULY 1978.
EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON THE SUPPRESSION OF TERRORISM.
1. ON 24 JULY THE UNITED KINGDOM DEPOSITED ITS INSTRUMENT
OF 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 OF 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 CON- VENTION WHICH MAY BE SEEN AS A REGIONAL EXTENSION OF THE ARRANGEMENTS CREATED FOR DEALING WITH ACTS OF TERRORISM SET CUT IN THE HAQUE CONVENTION ON HIJACK 10, THE MONTREAL CONVENTION WHICH DEALS WITH OFFENCES AGAINST AIRCRAFT AND THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL PROTECTED PERSONS CONVENTION. THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON THE SUPPRESSION OF TERRORISH SUBSTANTIALLY EXTENDS ARRANGEMENTS UNDER THESE CONVENTIONS BY A) COVERING A MUCH WIDER RANGE OF OFFENCES: AND B) OBLIGING 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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