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need to treat them in accordance with the law. My ac

said that even in the case of one of the returned

immigrants who had been convicted as a smuggler in

absentia and sentences to death, his capital sentence

had been commuted to life imprisonment on 3 July.

8. Mr Hattersley thanked the Foreign Minister for

these assurances and hoped that given press and

tha hi

parliamentary interest, the Foreign Minister would sce

no objection to public reference being made to this

conversation should it be necessary. Mr Bac readily

agreed.