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[TEXT] Your tel 3984: UK/ITALY EXTRADITION TREATY
Italians are unlikely to complete parliament tary
formalities required for ratification before March and
there could well be a longer delay. We hope therefore
that you will be able to let us have your agreement to
extend application of Treaty to Hong Kong before Italians
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are ready to ratify and be ready to consult the Chinese as necessary.
2.
Treaty with Italy differs from that with US in that
it does not automatically apply to dependent territories,
to whom it must be quote extended by agreement between
the Contracting Parties embodied in an Exchange of Notes
unquote (Article 18). However we sent Italians a draft
Exchange of Notes in September including in the Annex to
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