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Mr Tiams

(HKIOD)

CONFIDENTIAL

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RE:

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HONGKONG:

1.

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: DEATH SENTENCES

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With reference to your minute of 2 June, we have discussed with Mr Rushford and concur with the formula suggested in his

minute of 3 June. While I agree that any statement ought, in principle to be kept as short as possible indeed I hope it will not prove necessary to make one at all it is more important that it should be fully accurate and not open to erroneous inferences. It is, for example, possible that the wording suggested by Mr Champion might be taken to mean that an appeal had been made to The Queen in the Abdul Malik case, which,

so far as we are aware, is not so.

2. On a point of detail the second sentence of the second paragraph of Mr Rushford's proposed text should be amended to

read "on the advice of a Minister of the Government of Trinidad

and Tobago".

3. I would be grateful if you could arrange to repeat all these telegrams (by bag would do, I think) to Port of Spain.

M.P. Preochro

M P Preston

Caribbean Department

3 June 1975

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cc:

Mr Rushford Miss Storar Mr Champion

(Legal Advisers)

(CCD)

(G&GD)

CONFIDENTIAL

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