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Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
1.
Many thanks for your note of 7 June.
2.
what we can to
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MR MAK:
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I am sure it is absolutely right to try to do avoid misunderstanding of the sort displayed
by Ms. Christine
But I am not too surprised that
she has not given up
commenting in public. When Peter Lai
tackled Ms. Loh on 31 May, at а dinner for Mr. Goodlad,
why she kept on asking questions about this when she already
knew the answers (from a briefing by you), Ms. Loh replied
that as a human rights lobbyist, she felt obliged to keep up the pressure on HMG and HKG until the problem is solved!
3.
Thus, while I entirely agree with you that we should discretely educate some of our legislative councillors, and
am gratul for your efforts in this regard, we shouli mave
no illusion that We can head off further questions and
pressures from the human rights activists. It is indeed not
unknown for Legislative Councillors to say one thing in private discussion and another in public. Incidentally,
some Legislative Councillors are not altogether reliable
in telling the world what they hear from us in private! This could prejudice our negotiations with the Chinese.
HKCB 012/3
18 J. 1993
(Michael Cc. Sze)
SCA 9.6.93
C.C. PA
Mr. Galsworthy (UKREP JLG)
Mr. Dinham (GH)
Mr. Ricketts (HKD, FCO)
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