TNAG-1827-FCO40-2595-Mutual-legal-assistance-between-Hong-Kong-and-the-UK-and-USA-1988 — Page 119

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Dem Richards

JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE:

LEGAL COOPERATION

CHINESE ARRANGEMENTS FOR INTERNATIONAL

1. I enclose a translation which Perry Keller prepared at my request of a short announcement appearing in the "People's Daily" of

15 January, and which I hope may be of interest to you and others. It clearly conveys the growing importance which the Chinese are attaching to this field of international work. Some of its practical import is obscure: although it does seem to convey that the

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Ministry of Justice will be given a more central role in future, I do not see anything in it to make me revise the advice in my teleletter 373/1 of 230634Z December 1987 that we should formally approach the

MFA first about our intent to conclude a judicial assistance

agreement.

ahead yet?)

(Are you, incidentally, in a position to give us a go-

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Alyson J K Bailes

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CC:

R Peirce Esq

DPA, Hong Kong

N Chan Esq

General Duties Branch, Hong Kong

CT Wood Esq

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Hong Kong Dept, FCO

J Grainger Esq

Legal Advisers, FCO

P Monk Esq

Nationality and Treaty Dept, FCO

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