CONFIDENTIAL
From:
Submission
resubmitted.
Paul Fifoot
Legal Advisers
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Ms Major, HKD
HKD24 TT
12 JUL 1990
34
Date:
9 July 1990
HONG KONG BILL OF RIGHTS: CHINESE ATTITUDE
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fm 1017
I have amended the suggested brief in red. Most of the amendments are self-explantory, but I should draw attention to the following points (I have lettered the relevant passages for ease of reference):-
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I don't think we should make the point here that the SARG will be constrained in the area of human rights. In fact it is both enlarged and constrained.
I fear that is all we can say but "hope to listen" is hardly the consultation to which I think the Chinese have a claim.
I doubt whether ExCo will save us and so we have to say something like this; but I would cross out the last sentence as giving too great an opening for a rejoinder.
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