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22 AUG '91 15:04 BRITISH EMBASSY 070-3603839

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Hague

General Affairs Department

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents its compliments to Her Britannic Majesty's Embassy and has the honour, with reference

to the negotiations between delegations of the Kingdom of the

Netherlands and Hong Kong concerning a bilateral Treaty between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Hong Kong for

the surrender of fugitive offenders, to submit the following to

the British Government.

On 14 May 1991 the European Convention on Extradition of 13

December 1957 has entered into force in the relations between

the Kingdom of the Netherlands (the part of the Kingdom in

Europe) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nor-

thern Ireland (including the Channel Island and the Island of

Man).

Pursuant to Article 28, paragraph 1, of the Convention, the

provisions of the bilateral Treaty concluded in London on 26

September 1898 on the extradition of criminals shall cease to

apply with respect to the territories to which the Convention

applies.

In view of the fact that the bilateral Treaty of 1898 shall re-

main in force between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the

United Kingdom in respect of Hong Kong until it has been re- placed by a new agreement as envisaged, and in order to facili- tate the practical application of its Article VIII, the Ministry