TNAG-0716-FCO40-912-Air-hijacking-and-the-Dependent-Territories-1978 — Page 20

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TO ROUTINE CERTAIN MISSIONS AND DEPENDENT TERRITORIES TELNC GUIDANCE 137 OF 25 JULY 1978.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON THE SUPPRESSION OF TERRORISM.

1. ON 24 JULY THE UNITED KINGDOM DEPOSITED ITS INSTRUMENT

OF RATIFICATION OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON THE SUPPRESSION

CF TERRORISM. THE CONVENTION WILL COME INTO FORCE FOR THE UNITED KINGDON THREE MONTHS LATER CH 24 OCTOBER, THE RATIFICATION IS WITHOUT RESERVATION.

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2. WE SHOULD LIKE ALL COUNCIL OF EUROPE STATES TO BECOME PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND WITHOUT RESERVATIONS. THE UNITED KINGDOM PLAYED A MAJOR PART IN NEGOTIATING THE CON- VENTION WHICH MAY DE SEEN AS A REGIONAL EXTENSION OF THE ARRANGEMENTS CREATED FOR DEALING WITH ACTS OF TERRORISM SET CUT IN THE HAGUE CONVENTION ON HIJACK NG, THE MONTREAL CONVENTION WHICH DEALS WITH OFFENCES AGAINST AIRCRAFT AND THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL PROTECTED PERSONS CONVENTION. THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON THE SUPPRESSION OF TERRORIS: SUBSTANTIALLY EXTENDS ARRANGEMENTS UNDER THESE CONVENTIONS BY A) COVERING A WUCH WIDER RANGE OF OFFENCES: AND B) OBLIGING CONTRACTING STATES TO DISREGARD, FOR THE PURPOSES OF EXTRADITION BETWEEN THEN, THE POLITICAL ELEMENT IN SOME OF THE OFFENCES COVERED DY THE CONVENTION,

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