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: AJ PYNE ESQ, BRITISH EMBASSY, PEKING
020/393/43
DATED 27TH JANUARY 89
:
CT WOOD ESQ, HKD FCO
: R C WILSON ESQ, GD, HONG KONG
FILE REF
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FOLLOWING FOR
COPIED TO
GH LEICESTER ESQ, UKREP JLG, HONG KONG
YOUR TELELETTER OF 15 DECEMBER BBC RELAY STATION IN HONG KONG
AND 1997
1. I SPOKE TO JAMES MILES SOME WHILE AGO IN AN ATTEMPT TO TRACK DOWN HIS REFERENCE (WHILST TALKING TO PETER UDELL) TO AN ARTICLE
IN THE CHINESE CONSTITUTION FORBIDDING THE OPERATION OF FOREIGN
RADIO STATIONS ON CHINESE TERRITORY. MILES SEEMED RATHER
EMBARASSED AT HAVING SET THIS PARTICULAR SET OF ALARM BELLS RINGING. THE ''ARTICLE'' HE HAD REFERRED TO WAS IN FACT CONTAINED IN THE REGULATIONS COVERING THE CONDUCT OF FOREIGN MEDIA
CORRESPONDENTS IN CHINA AND NOT PART OF THE CONSTITUTION. THESE REGULATIONS PROHIBIT CORRESPONDENTS FROM OPERATING BROADCAST STATIONS WITHIN THE PRC. PERRY KELLER IS OF THE VIEW THAT THESE REALLY HAVE NO RELEVANCE TO THE BBC RELAY STATION: FIRST, WHILST THEY APPLY TO THE PRC, PERRY BELIEVES THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO BE SEPERATELY PROMULGATED BY THE SARG BEFORE TAKING EFFECT IN HONG KONG SECONDLY, THEY APPLY SPECIFICALLY TO FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS RATHER THAN TO BROADCASTING ORGANISATIONS.
2.
PERRY KELLER IS NOW TRYING TO TRACK DOWN THE REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE STATE COUNCIL AND THE CENTRAL MILITARY COMMISSION, REFERRED TO IN CHRIS WOOD'S TELELETTER TO YOU ON 15 DECEMBER, AND WE WILL LET YOU HAVE ANY TEXTS HE DISCOVERS ONCE WE HAVE THEM.
ANDREW PYNE
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