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Dr D 0 Wilson

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Dean Dand

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No Williamson J 24.4

26mber 1979

ofu;

-all vez encouraging-but

it is about time we began to see results!

R29/11

I enclose a record of your conversation with Deputy Foreign Minister Zhang Canming (the first occasion on which we had seen him since his elevation from Assistant Minister rank) I have simplified the opening exchanges, which were routine except in so far as they set out the economic background to the immigration problem. I did not hear the whole exchange at lunch on Vietnamese refugees but I think I have recorded the salient point.

2. You undertook to let me have a note on extradition to China, over which Zhang sounded moderately open-minded. My hazy recollection from APA days is that the legal background is extremely complicated and involves the Treaties as well as Hong Kong legislation. It is not a simple matter of recognising the Hong Kong courts, But my memory may be at fault.

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JB George

cc: W E quantrill Esq, PKGD, PCO

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