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Mr Watt

Mr Broomfield

PS/Mr Lennox-Boyd

FROM: FR Baker

UND K 147

270 2484

DATE: 15 October 1991

CC:

PS

PS/Mr Garel Jones

PS/Lord Caithness

Mr Slater

Head/News Dept

Head/Planners

Special Advisers

Mr Aust, Legal Advisers

Mr Holland, WIAD

UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

PROBLEM

Mr Pearce, SED

Mr Walder, SPD

Mr Riordan, HKD

1.

Whether to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

in two stages, with the UK and Islands and certain Dependent

Territories ratifying as soon as possible, and the other Dependent

Territories following later.

RECOMMENDATION

•

and

I recommend two-stage ratification, that the decision be announced by means of an improved PQ, and Legal Advisers, WIAD, SED,

FED and SPD concur.

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