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YOUR TELNOS 1267-8: CONVENTION ON THE MARKING OF PLASTIC

EXPLOSIVES FOR DETECTION

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WE ARE BROADLY CONTENT WITH THE DRAFT SPEAKING NOTE IN SECOND TUR, BUT HAVE THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENTS TO SUGGEST:

I) PARA 1 LINE 3: INSERT DATES OF CONFERENCE QUOTE FROM 12

FEBRUARY TO 1 MARCH UNQUOTE.

II) THE UK SIGNED THE CONVENTION ON 1 MARCH.

III) PARA 2(A) COMPRESSES SOME OF THE KEY FEATURES OF THE

CONVENTION, ALTHOUGH WE RECOGNISE THAT SOME OF THEM MAY

NOT BE DIRECTLY RELEVANT TO HONG KONG. WE SUGGEST A REDRAFT TO READ:

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(A) ALL PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES MANUFACTURED BY PARTIES

TO THE CONVENTION WILL HAVE TO BE MARKED THROUGH THE

ADDITION OF A CHEMICAL ADDITIVE.

(B) PARTIES ARE REQUIRED TO PROHIBIT AND PREVENT THE MANUFACTURE OR POSSESSION OF UNMARKED EXPLOSIVES IN THEIR

TERRITORIES OR THE MOVEMENT OF UNMARKED EXPLOSIVES INTO OR OUT OF THEIR TERRITORIES.

(C) PARTIES ARE REQUIRED TO ENSURE THE DESTRUCTION, SUBJECT TO CERTAIN EXCLUSIONS, OF COMMERCIAL STOCKS OF UNMARKED PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES WITHIN 3 YEARS OF AND CERTAIN

MILITARY STOCKS 15 YEARS AFTER ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE CONVENTION, AND OF UNMARKED EXPLOSIVES DISCOVERED IN THEIR TERRITORIES.

UNQUOTE

YOUR SUBPARAS (B) AND (C) WILL THEN BECOME (D) AND (E).

IV) PARA 3: WE SUGGEST INSERTING NEW SECOND AND THIRD

SENTENCES AS FOLLOWS: QUOTE THE CONVENTION, WHICH RESULTED FROM A BRITISH INITIATIVE, IS A VALUABLE ADDITION TO THE RANGE OF INTERNATIONAL COUNTER-TERRORIST LEGAL

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