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CONFIDENTIAL

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ZCZC

CONFIDENTIAL

Hkk 371/2

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY

FM FCO

20JUN 1986

TO ROUTINE HONG KONG

TELNO

REGISTR

INDEX

Action Taken

OF 130830Z JUNE 86

ROUTINE

YOUR TELNOS 1733 AND 1792:

PROVISION OF JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE TO

BRUNEI BY THE HONg kong GOVERNMENT

I doubt if this is particularly interesting BHK

of

You will appreciate that before we can give any views beyond a preliminary reaction to your enquiry we will need to obtain the views of the High Commission in Brunei on the probable

Bruneian reaction. However we assume that Brunei will confirm our own initial view that the Bruneians will prefer to maintain

present arrangements for as long as possible. We would also need

Brunei's assessment as to whether the Bruneians would be likely

to respond by asking HMG to provide judicial assistance after yours is terminated, since we should not be in a position to meet this request

2.

Para 6 of TUR asks how such termination might be married

into our bilateral relations with the Bruneians. Subject to

Brunei's views we feel that it would be better to give them

notice of termination....[timing]. At some later stage we

[SITED to add a

sentence or two_]

HKK 371/2

HKD

J Thomas

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