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*** OUR REF.: SCR3/3571/77 IV
**YOUR Ref.:
P.J. Williamson, Esq.,
Hong Kong and General Department,
FC 0,
London SW1A 2AH
GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
25th November 1980
HKK 240
RELIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51 0 3 DEC 1980
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Dear Patritz,
REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN HONG KONG
Thank you for your letter of 4 November (which I
copying to copy addressees).
2.
See 5
(which I am now
Robin Masefield in Information Department has already sent you a copy of the "Report on Hong Kong to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations." This is dated August but was only publicised here at a press conference held on 19 October by the eight people who wrote the report. The press release put out at the time said that the report had been sent on 23 September to "members" (unspecified) of the U.N. Human Rights Committee.
3.
The report has attracted very little public interest here. So far we have not attempted to make any comment on it either attributably or unattributably since we have no particular wish to give it the attention which it has so far failed to arouse.
4.
Seen from here we have really no idea about how seriously. it is likely to be taken elsewhere, either by the U.N. Human Rights Committee or by U.K. M.Ps, to whom the writers say they have also sent copies. We shall, therefore, be grateful for any estimate which you or UKMIS, New York can make of the likelihood of it being taken up either in London or by the Human Rights Committee; and whether any defensive material might be needed in due course.
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week
€8.12.
NOT
Your ever,
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(I.C. Orr)
Assistant Political Adviser
cc (with encls.):
Chancery, New York
Chancery, Peking (Mr. R.N. Pierce)
U.N. Dept. FCO