HKC 181/11
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R+R
NB27/4
EU
United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations
New York
845 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022-6691
16 April 1992
Mr R AJ Bunten
Hong Kong Department
FCO
Den Bunter,
Telephone: (212) 745-0200
Facsimile: (212) 745-0316
REGISTRATION OF HONG KONG ASAS WITH NEW ZEALAND AND MALAYSIA
1.
(4)
I refer to your letter of 13 April to Mr Fung.
2. You will appreciate that the UN Treaty Section send us many hundreds of communications each year, which we pass straight on to the FCO's Treaty Section (NTCD). It is not clear to me whether you have checked with the FCO Treaty Section, but if they have not received the certificates registration then the UN has not issued them.
3.
It is not clear from your correspondence what the relevance is of these essentially formal matters. No doubt my predecessor took the two agreements down to the UN for registration on 29 April 1991; agreements are "registered" on the date on which they are taken to the UN. We do not need to wait for a third person note from the UN if we need to know whether they have been registered. (It naturally takes the UN a certain amount of time to issue these formal communications since they have to deal with thousands of treaty matters each month, not all of them straightforward.)
4. If there is any specific action which you wish me to take in respect of any particular treaty let me know; the Treaty Section are always very helpful if we need any information. phone call is sufficient.
cc:
Yours sincerely,
Michael Wood
M C Wood
Mr Wilson Fung, Economic Services Branch, Hong Kong Mr M Glass, IAD, DTP
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