TNAG-2320-FCO40-3364-Human-rights-in-Hong-Kong-1991 — Page 171

INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS

COMMISSION INTERNATIONALE DE JURISTES

COMISIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE JURISTAS

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for Human Rights: General

President

ANDRÉS AGUILAR MAWDSLEY, Venezuela

Vice-Presidents

MRS. TAI-YOUNG LEE, Rep. Korea JOAQUÍN RUIZ-GIMÉNEZ, Spain

Executive Committee

P.J.G. KAPTEYN, Netherlands (Chairman) MICHAEL D. KIRBY, Australia

FALI S. NARIMAN, India

CHRISTIAN TOMUSCHAT, F.R. Germany AMOS WAKO, Kenya

Other Commission Members

BADRIA AL-AWADHI, Kuwait ANTONIO CASSESE, Italy

PARAM CUMARASWAMY, Malaysia DALMO DE ABREU DALLARI, Brazil

ROBERT DOSSOU, Benin

ENOCH DUMBUTSHENA, Zimbabwe

DESMOND FERNANDO, Sri Lanka

GUILLERMO FIGALLO, Peru

HENRY DE B. FORDE, Barbados

P. TELFORD GEORGES, The Bahamas

LENNART GROLL, Sweden

KOFI KUMADO, Ghana

RAJSOOMER LALLAH, Mauritius CLAIRE L'HEUREUX-DUBÉ, Canada

NIALL MACDERMOT, United Kingdom

RUDOLF MACHACEK, Austria

J.R.W.S. MAWALLA, Tanzania

F.X. MBOUYOM, Cameroon

DORAB PATEL, Pakistan

NICOLE QUESTIAUX, France ADELA RETA SOSA DIAZ, Uruguay MARY ROBINSON, Ireland

LORD SCARMAN, United Kingdom YUICHI TAKANO, Japan

CHITTI TINGSABADH, Thailand

Secretary-General

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I have the honour to inform you that the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has resolved to send a mission of three distinguished lawyers to Hong Kong for the purposes of investigating certain matters and reporting upon them to the ICJ Executive Committee.

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The members of the mission are:

Sir William Goodhart, Q.C.

Barrister-at-Law, London, United Kingdom

Chairman, Justice (the UK Section of the

International Commission of Jurists)

The Hon. John Dowd, Q.C., M.P.

Attorney General for New South Wales, Australia Chairman of the Council of the Australian Section

of the International Commission of Jurists

Y.M. Raja Aziz Addruse

Senior Barrister of the Bar of Malaysia, Kuala

Lumpur, Malaysia

I attach a copy

reference.

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the mission's terms of

It is presently expected that the mission will take place from Thursday, 20 June until Friday, 28 June 1991.

23 APR 1991

The Right Hon. Douglas Hurd, M.P. Secretary of State

Foreign and Commonwealth Office Whitehall

London, SW1A 2AH United Kingdom

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