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* OUR Ref.: SCR 3/3571/77 V
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UKMIS United Nations
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28 January, 1981.
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UNITED NATIONS: HUMAN RIGHTS IN HONG KONG
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You wrote to Patrick Williamson in Hong Kong
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and General Department on 12 December about the possibility that the report on "Putting Justice and Human Rights in Focus", which was published in Hong Kong last October, might be raised indirectly in some UN forum and suggesting the preparation of defensive briefing.
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Our people started doing some work on a brief. However, since the original document runs to 40 pages (even without the appendices of which we have not got a copy) and contains a wide range of unbalanced and biased claims, they have found that a great deal of work would be required
Indeed the result to prepare a comprehensive refutation. would probably run to several hundred pages. Understandably they are reluctant to use precious man-hours on such an exercise unless they have to.
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Since it is by no means certain, or even likely, that the document, or its contents, will ever be referred to, may we leave it that you will alert us if anything is said on the subject and that we would then undertake to provide rapid guidance by telegram? The same would apply if the subject is raised in Geneva. This assumes of course that there is a decent pause on such occasions between accusation and need for defence.
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(D C Wilson)
P J Williamson Esq (HK&GD) Chancery UKMIS Geneva
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