Ms Barrett
Legal Advisers
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HKC 384/1
27 MAY 1993
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HONG KONG/NETHERLANDS EXTRADITION AGREEMENT
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There are three aspects of the recently initallied Hong Kong/Netherlands Extradition Agreement which require action:
(a) We need to be sure that we are content with the
details of the initialled draft agreement (Hong Kong telno 1297 and draft agreement copied to you). I should be grateful for your views.
overlooked from 1716.
(b) The Netherlands Government have proposed an exchange of diplomatic notes to the effect that all future
communications under the existing treaty be through the Consulate-General of the Netherlands in Hong Kong (Hong Kong telno 1298). The Netherlands Embassy have now passed us a draft note for comments (attached). It differs slightly
from the text in Hong Kong telno 1298: points of
significance seem to me the date on which the European
Convention on Extradition entered into force between the UK
and Netherlands (14 or 16 May?); and the reference in Hong
Kong's draft to "until [the 1898 Treaty] has been replaced
by a new agreement as envisaged". I should be grateful for
your comments on the note sent by the Netherlands Embassy as
soon as possible so that we can give them a substantive
reply.
(c) We need to look again at disapplication of the
existing extradition arrangements to coincide with the
coming into effect of Hong Kong's new agreement.
My minute to you of 9 April (attached) refers. Perhaps we should now
draft the exchange of notes.
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