EXTRACT FROM REMARKS BY MR GALSWORTHY, UK REPRESENTATIVE TO
THE JOINT LIAISON GROUP, LONDON, 26 SEPTEMBER
"As far as human rights are concerned, as you know these matters were raised very vigorously by the Prime Minister during his recent visit to Peking and they have since been
followed up on a number of bilateral channels. Indeed, I understand the Foreign Secretary has just raised cases of
detainees with the Chinese Foreign Minister in New York on
24 September and our Ambassador in Peking is also discussing
human rights cases with the Chinese authorities there.
addition to that the Political Adviser has regular discussions with the New China News Agency in Hong Kong about the Hong Kong detainees. But the Joint Liaison Group
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has rather restricted terms of reference which we indeed
were very careful to draw up in a restrictive way, and human
rights in China would not fall inside that, so we wouldn't
want to play fast and loose with the terms of reference."
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