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監察團辦事處

香港金鐘道三十八號

最高法院

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a private

visit

COMELIN

OFFICE OF THE MONITORING TEAM THE SUPREME COURT

38 QUEENSWAY HONG KONG

between Hong Kong and London when the Monitoring Team

report is published. As it happens, Simon Li is contemplating the possibility of visiting* London after our assignment

perhaps in time to witness the Debate in the

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is over House of Commons but he and I are inclined to judge that he ought to be in Hong Kong when both reports are made public. You warned me from the outset about the vigorous activity of the Hong Kong press, and the local media are certain to wish to swarm round Simon Li; but our current view subject to your own guidance is that the Monitors should decline to add any public comment on their report, or to meet members of the press (if they should wish it), until after the Parliamentary Debate. We will be grateful for your guidance on that in due course.

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One last point at this stage. It will be part

of our task to ensure that the Assessment Office does, in the event, make the necessary arrangements for meeting the confidentiality requirement in the form now announced. The Monitoring Team will, of course, have to dispose appropriately of its own papers. We plan at present to return to the Assessment Office those letters, submissions and forms which we have received for monitoring purposes to be dealt with in accordance with the disposal procedure which Ian Macpherson has now, to our satisfaction, formulated. But we shall have a few working papers of our own relating to our modus operandi, the drafting of our report and so on. I believe that you would wish to have these sent to the FCO as a contribution to your archives relating to the establish- ment of the Monitoring Team and the discharge of its terms of reference. Do you agree ?

You would not wish me to comment on the progress of our assignment at this moment; but I can say that the two Monitors are in good heart and, I hope, getting on with the job in an effective fashion !

c.c. MT/2/05 C

(Yours ever,)

(Patrick Nairne)

Appointed by the Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs

英國外交及聯邦事務大臣委任