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05 SEP 1990
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: LINE TO TAKE
We have now received from WIAD the promised Line to
take' in the form of the attached draft telegram. The tone
1.
of the telegram strikes me as somewhat inappropriate since it has never been Hong Kong's wish to 'provoke' public discussion of the capital punishment issue. On the contrary, the problem (from Hong Kong's point of view) has
been the fact that the Caribbean Governors have been
pressing for abolition of the death penalty with some urgency at a time when Hong Kong did not want the issue
raised.
BI
2. I suggest an amended version of the telegram (also
attached)
CODE 18-77
GUYABU/1
Kay Sanders
KAM Saunders