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3 August 1977

Capital Punishment in Dependent Territories

Thank you for your letter of 2 August to Ewen Fergusson about the preliminary meeting that you will be holding at 3.00 pm tomorrow, Thursday, 4 August, to consider DOP(77)19.

The FCO representatives at the meeting will be:

JA B Stewart, Head of Hong Kong & General Department

J D P Bickford, Assistant Legal Adviser.

Harry Stanley, the Under-Secretary in charge of Dependent Territories, would also like to attend if he is acceptable as a supernumary on the day before he goes on leave and transfer abroad.

I am sending copies of this letter to the recipients of yours as well as to John Meadway at No. 10.

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No. 51'

4 AUG 1977

HKG 386/1

W K Prendergast

Private Secretary

Sir Clive Rose KCMG,

Cabinet Office,

Whitehall,

London SW1.

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