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LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
26-28 OLD QUEEN STREET
LONDON SWIH 9HP
nkc 031/23
ALCEM
0 4 NOV 1991
Telephone 071-210 35721 Fax 071-210 3460
/ November 1991
HONG KONG: IRO SUB-GROUP: PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW TREATIES
I apologise for the delay in answering your request regarding the
papers on Trusts and Arbitrations.
As I told you on the telephone, this department is happy with the
Trust Convention paper and has no comment to make on it other
than it is clearly desirable that the Convention should continue
to apply to Hong Kong after 1997.
I encountered some difficulty in getting comments from DTI who
have responsibility for the Arbitration Convention but have now
spoken to Roger Fayers there who has told me that he has no
comments to make on that paper. He pointed out that while it is
desirable that all three Conventions should continue after 1997,
the most important of them is the New York Convention which has
been implemented by Ordinance in Hong Kong. It should certainly continue to apply after 1997 if Hong Kong is to remain a major arbitration centre.
May I again apologise for the delay in replying.
Yours
sincerely,
Gurura Malthers
Mrs E Matthews
Dr Simon D Harkin
Hong Kong Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
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