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Article 5

Article 8

Article 12

This Article on mutual legal assistance is in the general area that we are con- templating for a bilateral agreement with the United States. The only point that appears somewhat strange is the provision proposed in paragraph 4 (a) for transferring proceedings.

Incidentally, it is not clear what the relationship is between Article 5 and Article 6.1.

The provisions for adding to List A or List B are modelled on provisions in the Single Convention. However, I wonder if it is necessary to go through the Secretary-General and whether an appeal to ECOSOC is an efficient way of doing business. Those with experience of the Single Convention are better placed to judge.

I agree with Mr Nagler that we are likely to have problems over this. It would be as well to examine our experience of our arrangements with the United States.

Paul Fifoot Legal Advisers