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INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS (ICJ) REPORT ON HONG
KONG
1.
Mr Berman's minute to you of 8 May.
We will certainly produce a careful analysis of the ICJ report, once we have received the views of Hong Kong's Attorney General.
2.
3. My comment that this was not an impartial enquiry did indeed relate to the terms of reference. In my view, the ICJ's choice of self-determination as the point of departure for their terms of reference indicated that there was a
pre-judgement involved. Self-determination is of course a politically loaded term in the Hong Kong context, and by choosing it as their point of reference, I felt that the ICJ had served notice from the outset that they intended to re-open the question of policy which was settled by the Joint Declaration in 1984.
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