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Agreements between UK/HKSAR (jarängers
When I was in London in mid-July I mentioned to Shelagh Brooks and Jill Barrett that I thought we should /
begin to give consideration to what arrangements will to be in effect between the UK and Hong Kong SAR after 1997 and how we should set about achieving this. This letter is intended to get that consideration started.
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First, what subjects will need to be covered? Presumably it will be essential for the UK and the SAR to have in place satisfactory arrangements after 1997 in all those areas that we are busy fixing up now with other important countries. Thus, we will need arrangements covering air services, extradition, investment promotion and protection, mutual legal assistance in criminal matters and reciprocal enforcement of judgments. Other areas we shall need to think about include visa abolition and prisoner exchange. Provided we get a good result in the IRO Sub-group on the multilateral treaties in the Private International Law category (I have principally in mind the various Hague Conventions and the New York Arbitration Convention), I guess it would be satisfactory to allow UK/SAR relations to be governed through those multilateral conventions after 1997.
It may well be that there are other areas to be covered and we are now considering those here and will come back to you as necessary. You will no doubt let us know if you think there are other subjects that need to be covered. One can get an idea of the sort of fields we should be thinking about by looking at JD 134; indeed that provision would presumably be the formal basis for our approach to the Chinese on this matter.
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The second question we need to consider is what mechanism to have in place to achieve our objectives. are currently of course negotiating various kinds bilateral agreements
with a number of relevant countries.
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