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COVERING CONFIDENTIAL

Date: 9 September 1993

R+R

Foreign & Commonwealth

Office

29

Mr Mike Leach

Telecommunications and Posts Division

2B/C

DTI

London SWIA 2AH

Telephone: 071-

210-2655

Dear Mcke,

INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION (ITU): RATIFICATION OF THE ITU CONSTITUTION AND CONVENTION, GENEVA 1992

(27) (28

I have just received the enclosed telegrams from Hong Kong. As you can see they have agreed to consult the Chinese over the ratification of the treaties so that they may continue after 1997. I should be grateful for any comments you, and copy addressees, may have on the draft speaking note. order that we can begin discussions with the Chinese as soon as possible, I should be grateful for a response by 16 September.

Your even

Red

RAJ Bunten

Hong Kong Department

cc: Miss Losty, ESED

Ms Barrett, Legal Advisers

Mr Bunten, HKD

In

The draft speaking not looks all right, but I have not seen

on the accu

So I am not in

са

any of

the texts in question.

uracy of Final Acts will not involve substantial changes to existing

would like me to check that, please send

position to commer the statement in para 7 that the Geneva

If

jen

Geneva Final Acts.

COVERING CONFIDENTIAL

Will Banett

"Asst Legal Adviser

IROS

copy of the

10/9

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