TNAG-2512-FCO40-3665-Future-of-Hong-Kong-International-Rights-and-Obligations-(IR-1992 — Page 142

憲制事務司

布政司署

香港下亞厘畢道

Our Ref : CAB B1/6/2/7

CONFIDENTIAL

By Bag

Secretary for Constitutional Affairs

GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT,

LOWER ALBERT ROAD, HONG KONG.

4 June 1992

Dr Simon Harkin, Esq.,

Foreign & Commonwealth Office,

Hong Kong Department, Whitehall,

SW1A 2AH

Dear Simon,

As

enclosing a

annexes

R+R

HKC 031/4

Application to Hong Kong after 1997 of CM

Human Rights Treaties

promised in our telno 1488 of 2 June, I am fairly bulky wad of documents which will form to the draft discussion papers on ICCPR and ICESCR. I have ignored Annexes A and B which in each case will be simply the text of the Convention and evidence of ratification.

I have been unable to obtain Annex D to the ICESCR paper (the Economic and Social Council's resolution 1988/4) and Annex E to the ICCPR paper (the Human Rights Committee's decision requiring reports every five years) and I should be grateful for assistance from your end.

I would also welcome your comments in particular on Annex E to the ICESCR paper and on Annex F to the ICCPR paper. For the latter, I am proposing to include the three reports of the Human Rights Committee from 1978-1991 (as in the blue file). Much of the material is not entirely relevant but Ι see no way of avoiding this, given the way in which the Committee's reports are delivered. Is there perhaps some more succinct record that we could provide?

ever

You and

(B.J. Ireland )

for Secretary for Constitutional Affairs

c.c. LO(IL) (Attn: Ms J. Foakes)

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