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Item 14: Visa Abolition Agreements (VAAs)
23.
VAAS
Hong
Kong.
At present, many Hong Kong residents benefit from concluded by HMG with other countries and extended to.
It is essential that Hong Kong negotiates its own VAAS to facilitate easy travel by Hong Kong residents. The British side's Intention is to secure VAAs for travel holders have the right of
documents
which
that indicate
abode in Hong Kong. Such travel documents may include, We shall discuss this after June 1997, HKSAR passports. subject with the Chinese side in due course.
Item 15: Transfer of Prisoners
24.
side
consulted
the
Chinese side in
The British August 1987 on the continued application to the HKSAR of the Council of Europe Convention on Transfer of Sentenced Persons and the UK/Thailand Prisoner Transfer Agreement. The Chinese side had no objection to the application of
these treaties before July 1997.
talks
on
surrender
of
During the course of
expert
fugitive offenders it was agreed that this topic would be reverted to once progress countries for the
Since then surrender of. fugitive offenders had been made.
In the light
од
the
arrangements
with foreign
been made on extradition. has
good progress
of
the this,
British
side would
like to
commence
discussions on the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced
Persons in the near future.
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