B
C
Background
3.
July.
Amnesty International wrote to the Prime Minister on 12
Miss Foulds' submission of 27 July recommended that the
Prime Minister agree to a meeting prior to Lord Howe's human
rights mission to China (planned for 30 November to 8 December).
4.
Apart from Lord Howe's mission to China (we plan to bring Amnesty into a briefing session before the departure of the Mission), Amnesty intend to raise UK refugee policy including the Asylum Bill, the human rights situation in
the former Yugoslavia and, possibly, that in Turkey and
East Timor. They will also ask the Prime Minister to make
a contribution, possibly in the form of a letter, to Human
Rights Day (10 December). There are no other subjects that
we wish to raise.
5.
Amnesty may also raise the problems they are having as
regards work permits for their non-EC employees. This is the
subject of discussions between the Department of Employment and
Amnesty, and I have separately submitted a recommendation that Mr
Hogg write to Lord Ullswater to support the Amnesty case. If
this is raised, the Prime Minister need only take note.
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