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UKREP JLG 269: SURRENDER OF FUGITIVE OFFENDERS: FRANCE AND
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IN TUR UKREP JLG REPORTED HIS CONVERSATION WITH GUO IN WHICH HE HAD SAID THAT HKG HAD STARTED INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS ON THIS SUBJECT AS HE (GUO) HAD SUGGESTED. WE WILL INTERPRET ''INFORMAL AS ALLOWING US TO AGREE TEXTS OF AGREEMENTS AT DELEGATION LEVEL BUT NOT/NOT TO INITIAL THEM UNTIL THE CHINESE GIVE US THEIR FORMAL AGREEMENT. WE WILL, OF COURSE, INFORM OUR INTERLOCUTORS OF
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WE ARE PLANNING TO SEND A DELEGATION LED BY LO(IL) TO FRANCE
AND GERMANY IN EARLY SEPTEMBER FOR INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS ON FUGITIVE OFFENDERS AGREEMENTS. GIVEN THE INFORMAL STATUS OF THE TALKS AND CHINESE SENSITIVITIES ON ENTRUSTMENTS, WE BELIEVE IT WOULD BE PREMATURE FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO MAKE A FORMAL ENTRUSTMENTS AT THIS STAGE. THAT CAN FOLLOW CHINESE AGREEMENT TO ''FORMAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE COUNTRIES CONCERNED.
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