Your Ref: Our Ref:
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
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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
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Geneva Final Acts.
COVERING CONFIDENTIAL
Will Banett
"Asst Legal Adviser
IROS
copy of the
10/9
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