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renegotiation agenda during subsequent meetings.

significance should be read into this. HMG had

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Hong Kong very much in mind: it was illogical that the agreements inherited from the previous Government had actually discriminated in favour of Hong Kong's

competitors in the UK market.

11. Register of Shipping

11.1

Sir M MacLehose had discussed this with BOT

officials.

12.

12.1

Air Services for Scandinavian Airlines

SAS were not pushing their application

particularly strongly. However, Sir M MacLehose said

he would tell the Hong Kong press that he had reaffirmed

the importance which Hong Kong attach to this.

13.

Illegal Immigration from South Vietnam and Other

Third Countries

13.1 It had just been confirmed that one of the 118

South Vietnamese recently returned to Vietnam had

previously been tried and sentenced to death on

smuggling charges. He was to be retried and would be

liable to severe punishment though, almost certainly,

not a death sentence. Sir M MacLehose observed that

the South Vietnamese authorities had qualified their

assurances by saying that smugglers would be liable

for punishment. The person concerned had given a

false name in Hong Kong and Lord Goronwy-Roberts

thought that HMG could reply satisfactorily to any criticism (e.g. from Amnesty International) so long as

The man it was not subsequently learned that Hong Kong had in

fact explained his predicament to the Hong Kong

authorities.

13.2

Sir M MacLehose said he would examine, on his

return to Hong Kong, the degree of individual consideration given to the group before they were

returned. He would report to London, with an assess-

ment of the implications for the return of illegals to

China. He would ensure that proper individual

consideration was given in any subsequent cases. At

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