Thank you for your letter of 14 October to Douglas Hurd about the status of prisoners in Hong Kong after the establishment
of the Special Administrative Region in 1997. I know that you have also been in correspondence with Simon Glenarthur about
this issue.
I know that my colleagues in the Foreign and Commonwealth
praise the Office are fully aware of the need to deal with the whole
(the return trevat
need to
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question of extradition/in negotiations with the Chinese. understand that, as Simon Glenarthur has already assured you,
we shall seek.
it will be the intention to ensure that the terms on which the offenders person are extradited to the colony will be respected after
1997.
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: retwold are
H-K
PO 36573/87
XTN 87 0005/0007/001/(S)