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The

U.S.

conceded

require

that

realistically

that they could not

there be no-deportation.

Edwards advised that Hong Kong's immigration laws are

administered consistently with the Refugee Convention.

(8)

U.K. Entrustment

does HKG have authority

to

terminate

Edwards

advised that it did and referred to

Article 16 which had been approved by HMG.

(9)

In absentia convictions : what is HK practice and

concern vis-a-vis the U.S.

It

was

agreed that the reference to such

convictions in the

agreement could probably be deleted

since HK law did not provide for such convictions and U.S.

law did only :

(a) where the accused had been removed for disrupting

the proceedings; or

(b) where the accused had fled following presentation

of the Crown case.