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YOUR TEL NO 158 TO HONG KONG: PRISONER REPATRIATION
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1. YOUR TUR LEADS US TO WONDER IF WE HAD CORRECTLY UNDERSTOOD YOUR INTENTIONS. WE ASSUMED AND HAVE TOLD THE JAPANESE THAT THE UK PROPOSAL WAS FOR A UK-JAPAN AGREEMENT WHICH COVERED HONG KONG AS THE UK-THAI AGREEMENT DOES. OUR QUESTION WAS WHETHER THE HONG
KONG ELEMENT OF THIS WOULD HAVE TO BE SEPARATED IN ORDER TO REMAIN
IN FORCE AFTER 1997.
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