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Ms Barrett, Legal Advisers
HONG KONG/NETHERLANDS EXTRADITION AGREEMENT
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1. I still await a reply to my minute of 21 May which recopied to you on 14 June. In particular, we owe the Netherland's Embassy a reply to their Diplomatic Note which was received before 10 May.
2.
The other two points (your comments on the initialled draft agreement and an exchange of notes for disapplication of the existing Hong Kong/Netherlands extradition arrangements) are also likely to become pressing.
3.
Other extradition negotiations are also moving ahead. You will have seen Canberra telno 17 to Hong Kong reporting that Hong Kong expect to initial an agreement with Australia at a further round of talks in the autumn. We shall need to streamline procedures for dealing with these agreements at the London end as they are initialled.
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P A Major (Ms)
Hong Kong Department
WH 305
270 2655
27 June 1991
CC: Miss Brooks
Mr Bousfield, NTCD
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Mr Sainty,
1. Apologies for not having dealt
with M. Major's minutes before
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particularly buy time and became rapidly submerged under
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2. On the most urgent point, ie, the diplomaticnok
from the Netherlands, I have the following comments; I arame that the version I'
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in the typescript asked to comment on attached, not the text is HL Tel 298.
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7(6)) should
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