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TELNO 465 OF 3/4/85
HINFO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
55) MIPT: HONG KONG AGREEMENT: REGISTRATION AT THE UN
TOKK 040/12.
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1. ZHOU RECALLED THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN YOU AND WU XUEQHAN DURING THE PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT. THE CHINESE SHIIDE HAD CONSIDERED OUR SUGGESTION ABOUT ACTING TOGETHER TO REGISTER THE JOINT DECLARATION AT THE UN FOLLOWING NTS ENTRY INTO FORCE.
2. ZHOU SAID THAT THE USUAL CHINESE PRACTICE WAS TO REGISTER UNILATERALLY SOME, THOUGH NOT ALL, INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS AND TREATHES AT THE U N. REGISTRATION WAS USUALLY UNDERTAKEN AT WINTERVALS
,
WITH SEVERAL AGREEMENTS TAKEN TOGETHER. ZHOU BELIEVED THAT THE
CHINESE WOULD BE REGISTERING A GROUP OF AGREEMENTS AT THE UN QUITE SOON, POSSIBLY BEFORE THE END OF APRIL.
3. IN THE CASE OF THE JOINT DECLARATION, THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WAS PREPARED TO REGISTER KT AFTER INSTRUMENTS OF RATIFICATION HAD
BEEN EXCHANGED, IN A SET WITH SOME OTHER BILATERAL AGREEMENTS.
IF THE OTHER PARTIES TO AGREEMENTS WITH CHINA WISHED TO REGISTER
THOSE AGREEMENTS AT THE UN, THEY WERE FREE TO DO SO.
4. THE CHINESE SIDE CONSIDERED THAT IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE TO
FOLLOW THIS PRACTICE IN THE CASE OF THE JOANT DECLARATION, FOR WHICH THEY DID NOT WISH TO BREAK THEIR ESTABLISHED PRACTICE. IF WE
COULD AGREE TO THIS, THEY COULD CONSIDER FURTHER WITH US THE POSSIBILITY OF ARRANGING FOR OUR RESPECTIVE REGISTRATIONS TO BE
MADE AT AROUND THE SAME TIME.
5. # SAND BELIEVED YOU WOULD BE GLAD TO LEARN THAT THE CHINESE PLANNED TO REGISTER THE JOINT DECLARATION AT THE U N.
EVANS
See
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HKK040/1
1984
HONG KONG AGREEMENT
LIMITED
HD/HKD
HD/FED
HD/PLANNING STAFF
HD/PUSD
DEP HD/PUSD
RESEARCH DEPT (MR WALKER) PS
PS/MR LUCE
PS/PUS
SIR W HARD ING
MR WILSON
SIR J FREELAND
MR J CROWLEY, PUSD
COPIES TO:(VIA ADR)
MR ROBERTS, NEWS DEPT
MR FIFOOT, LEGAL ADVISERS MR BURROWS, LEGAL ADVISERS
MR MARTIN, ASST STAFF CABINET
OFFICE
MR CARTLEDGE, CABINET OFFICE MR DR C CHRISTOPHER. CABINET OFF. SIR P CRADDOCK, No. 10 DOWNING ST.
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