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HE Mr P M Foster CMG
UKDEL Strasbourg
REGISTRY NO. 51. 13 APR 1977
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WRR 241/7
Date
12 April 1977
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ARTICLES 25 AND 46 OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS: INDIVIDUAL PETITION AND JURISDICTION OF THE COURT
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1. I attach the drafts of letters to the Secretary General renewing the Article 25 and Article 46 declarations for the following territories:
Belize
Solomon Islands
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Gilbert Islands
I should be grateful if you would arrange for these to be delivered to the Secretariat. The territories concerned have accepted in full knowledge of the implications.
2. Declarations were registered in August 1976 for:
Bermuda
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar
St Helena
Tuvalu
St Lucia
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Guernsey
Jersey
Of the Dependent Territories to whom the Convention has been extended, there will now remain only Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands who have not yet accepted renewal of Articles 25 and 46. Montserrat are waiting for Tyrer: they have
(The asked to postpone their decision until after the outcome of the case. declarations do not of course apply to Hong Kong and Pitcairn, to whom the Convent. has never been extended.)
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