TNAG-1708-FCO40-2383-Hong-Kong-narcotics-offences-and-drug-trafficking-1987 — Page 119

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6 November 1987

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Legal Advisers

STATUS OF PRISONERS IN HONG KONG AFTER 1997

Problem

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A letter from the Earl of Winchilséa about the status of

prisoners in Hong Kong after 1997.

Recommendation

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I recommend that Lord Glenarthur reply along the lines of the

attached draft. Legal Advisers, Hong Kong and Peking agree.

Background

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Lord Winchilsea's letter follows up an earlier exchange between him and Mr Eggar (in Lord Glenarthur's absence on holiday). Those letters are attached, together with Mr Smith's submission of

20 August.

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Lord Winchilsea's latest letter is more detailed and carefully argued than his first. It seeks assurances and guarantees which we are simply not in a position to offer. The attached analysis from the Department's Legal Adviser explains why this is so. In the circumstances I consider that we have no alternative but to make this plain to Lord Winchilsea, while emphasising that:

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