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GOVERMENT HOUSE HONG KONG.

FRI 21 FEB 92 09:00

PG.02

CONFIDENTIAL

布政司署

香港下亞畢道

GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

BY FAX & BAG

**LI QUR REF· CAB #2/6/3

21 February 1992

*ACH YOUR REF

RAJ Bunten Esq

Hong Kong Department

FCO

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Don Ro

LOCALISATION OF LAWS

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2.

3.

Nigel Whitney 17 February

on

has passed me your letter of enquiring about progress laws and when we expect to be ready to hand over further papers to the Chinese,

localisation of

The ball is in your court on a draft paper on Biological Weapons which we sent to you in early December and which we had planned t› hand over before the end of last year.

(HK TELNO 3814 and 3815 of 9 January 1991 and our FAX to Simon Harkin of 9 January).

The ground work has been done on the preparation of four consultation papers which we expect to hand over to the Chinese in the coming six months, on the topics

Merchant Shipping (Seafarers), Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, Dumping at Sea and Nuclear Installations. We shall send those papers Lo you for clearance as soon as they are finalised within HKG.

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Your satis

Geoltrey O-

(G.M. Orr )

for Secretary for Constitutional Affairs

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