TNAG-2512-FCO40-3665-Future-of-Hong-Kong-International-Rights-and-Obligations-(IR-1992 — Page 227

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From the Private Secretary

Dear Sima,

MON

10 DOWNING STREET

LONDON SWIA 2AA

Mr Burke

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CALL BY AMBASSADOR MA: HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA

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to follow ups achinjihen

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PS /Land Caithmen PS/PUT Sir J Clas

повиша

12 March 1992

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VISH OF 13 Liti

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Thank you for the briefing which you sent over for Ambassador Ma's call on me this afternoon.

The Ambassador handed over the enclosed list. He said that it had been brought from Peking by the delegation accompanying Qian Qichen, and he had been instructed to hand it over exactly as it was, i.e. without a translation. He did, however, run over the categories briefly. Subject to what emerges in translation it looks as if the list goes no further than the information given to Lord Caithness when he was in Peking.

I told the Ambassador that I was grateful for the list but that we had sought further details such as details of the sentences, the places where people were held and the prospects for remission. If, as I understood, this information was not in the list he had given me we would wish to come back for more information. The Ambassador said that we were of course free to do so.

I said that the Foreign Secretary had raised with Qian Qichen some individual cases about whom we were concerned, in particular Wang Juntao, whose state of health gave us cause for anxiety. We hoped he could be released on medical grounds. The Ambassador said that we could obviously ask more questions about him. He undertook to report what I had said.

Jans,

Stephen

(J. S. WALL)

Simon Gass, Esq., Foreign and Commonwealth office.