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CONFIDENTIAL
1983 COMMONWEALTH LAW MINISTERS' MEETING (CLMM)
(SRI LANKA 14-18 FEBRUARY)
Human Rights
DSR 11C
INTRODUCTION
1. The CLMM will consider the proposal for an
Advisory Committee on Commonwealth Human Rights. We
should take a low profile, but without obstructing
the proposal. Other countries have difficulties
with the idea and we can afford to let them take the
lead.
POINTS TO MAKE
2. We welcome the opportunity for further discussion
of the Working Party's proposal (paragraph 5) for an
Advisory Committee for the protection and maintenance
of human rights in the Commonwealth.
3. Hope the CLMM will endorse this, subject to
satisfactory funding arrangements.
The Advisory Committee should not duplicate the
funtions of existing bodies (eg the United Nations
Commission on Human Rights).
4.
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