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YOUR TELNO 3229: UK/FRANCE EXTRADITION TREATY
ARTICLE II OF 1876 TREATY, AS MODIFIED BY CONVENTION OF
17 OCTOBER 1908, READS:
1.
QUOTE EACH OF THE TWO HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES SHALL BE AT
LIBERTY TO REFUSE TO THE OTHER THE EXTRADITION OF ITS
OWN NATIONALS. IN THE CASE, HOWEVER, OF A PERSON WHO,
SINCE THE COMMISSION OF THE CRIME OR OFFENCE OF WHICH
HE IS ACCUSED, OR FOR WHICH HE HAS BEEN CONVICTED, HAS
BECOME NATURALIZED IN THE COUNTRY WHENCE THE SURRENDER
IS SOUGHT, SUCH NATURALIZATION SHALL NOT PREVENT THE
PURSUIT, ARREST AND EXTRADITION OF SUCH PERSON, IN
CONFORMITY WITH THE STIPULATIONS OF THE PRESENT TREATY.
UNQUOTE.
2.
SINCE TREATY DOES NOT PROHIBIT SURRENDER OF OWN NATIONALS,
WE WOULD NOT REFUSE EXTRADITION ON THIS GROUND AND INDEED AS
RECENTLY AS MAY 1986 WE EXTRADITED A BRITISH CITIZEN TO FRANCE.
3.
IF CASE IN QUESTION RELATES TO EXTRADITION OF THREE PERSONS
NAMED LIU, SIU AND HUNG WE UNDERSTAND THAT PAPERS WILL SHORTLY
BE SENT TO FRENCH CONSULATE GENERAL, HONG KONG FOR SUBMISSION
TO YOU.
HOWE
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