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CODE 18-77
Ms Barrett, Legal Advisers
HONG KONG/NETHERLANDS EXTRADITION AGREEMENT
1.
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I still await a reply to my minute of 21 May which I 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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PA Major (Ms)
Hong Kong Department
WH 305
270 2655
27 June 1991
CC: Miss Brooks
Mr Bousfield, NTCD
WED
Minure
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Bouficlo MICD INTCD
Mr Sainty, HIED
1. Apologies for not having dealt with Ms Major's minutes before.
they
arrived at
a
particularly bury time and became rapidly
submerged under even
paper!
mae
ungent
2. On the most urgent point, ie, the diplomationde
from the Netherlands, I have the following aspune that the version I'
арте
comments: I
apked to comment on
am
attached, not
3. The wording
is the typescript
the teach is HL·tel 4298
about the replacement of the
1898 Treaty (see MJ Major's minute
1 (6)) should
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para
this and
ge
9 21/5,
Please see
amendments in red on
back in
text
my
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TG 4, will revest on the
other points soon,
Jill Banett
15/7/91
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