TNAG-0755-FCO40-959-Security-arrangements-at-Kai-Tak-Airport-1978 — Page 25

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EN CLAIR AND BY BAG

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TO ROUTINE CERTAIN MISSIONS AND DEPENDENT TERRITORIES TELNO

GUIDANCE 187 OF 25 JULY 1978.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON THE SUPPRESSION OF TERRORISM.

1. ON 24 JULY THE UNITED KINGDOM DEPOSITED ITS INSTRUMENT

CF RATIFICATION OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON THE SUPPRESSION

OF TERRORISM. THE CONVENTION WILL COME INTO FORCE FOR THE

UNITED KINGDOM THREE MONTHS LATER ON 24 OCTOBER. THE RATIFICATION

IS WITHOUT RESERVATION.

LINE TO TAKE.

2. WE SHOULD LIKE ALL COUNCIL CF 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 CCN-

VENTION WHICH MAY DE SEEN AS A REGIONAL EXTENSION OF THE

ARRANGEMENTS CREATED FOR DEALING WITH ACTS CF TERRORISH SET CUT IN THE HAQUE CONVENTION ON HIJACKING, 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 KUCH WIDER RANGE OF OFFENCES: AND B) ODLIGING CONTRACTING STATES TO DISREGARD, FOR THE PURPOSES OF EXTRADITION BETWEEN THEM, THE POLITICAL ELEMENT IN SOME OF THE OFFENCES COVERED

BY THE CONVENTION.

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