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to have appeared to date on the future programme for the JLG.
We should be interested to know where matters stand in your
preparation of this subject.
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copy addressees' 4. We should also be grateful for your and UKREPS views on how and when we should the subject raise with the Chinese.
They may view this as another set of agreements eroding the control and sovereignty of the PRC (the view they have expressed in the
context of IPPAs). But reciprocal juridical assistance is at Least mentioned specifically in the JD (JD 71) which gives us
strong grounds for raising it in the JLG. It is also likely to be less politically sensitive than extradition and MLA
arrangements, to which the Chinese are already committed.
5. We shall be telegraphing separately on the related matter of reciprocal judicial assistance arrangements between Hong Kong
and China.
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