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Another bounce by HKG.

I don't like it. What

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From: A R Paul

Hong Kong Department

to

Date: 25 March 1991

replace

file copy

Cc:

time?

yearr changed-s

So

happens 6(6) has now presumably has 9(6). Effect of

HK. agreement.

Annex C. 2(11) that is UK

parellel. ? board

Mr Burns

воси

PS/Mr Lennox-Boyd

PS/PUS

Sir J Coles

Mr Beamish

Ms Evans, UND

Mr Colvin, SEAD

Ms Barrett,

Legal Advisers

Mr Crystal, News Dept

Mr Davies, FED

Special Advisers:

Mr Powell, Planners

of visitors. minick U.K. prsa population.

PS/Lord Caithness

Private Secretary

Resouces

соб

devoted

to

бернский

ù HK. I manpower

for 2/1

speed of screening. How long does it take. Numbers per weekfall.

VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE (VBP) ́AND THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT

ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS (ICCPR)

-26/3

Problem

1.

The

The Hong Kong Government need to amend their Immigration Ordinance as a consequence of recent and potential legal challenges to their policy on Vietnamese Boat People. Hong Kong Government propose to publish the amendments on 12 April, one week after presentation to the UN Human Rights Committee in New York of the Third Periodic Report on Hong Kong under the ICCPR, and shortly before the enactment of the Hong Kong Bill of Rights (which is designed to make the provisions of the ICCPR legally enforceable in Hong Kong).

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