CODE 18-77
Miss Brooks,
Legal Advisers
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SURRENDER OF FUGITIVE OFFENDERS: FRANCE AND GERMANY
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1. I attach a copy of Hong Kong Telno 1742 which proposes that LO (IL) be permitted to undertake "informal"negotiations with the French aand Germans to the point of agreeing, but not initialling texts. Do you think that without an entrustment he would be able to carry out such negotiations?
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RAJ Bunten WH305 270-2655 30 June 1992
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TELNO 1742
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INFO ROUTINE PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
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UKREP JLG 269: SURRENDER OF FUGITIVE OFFENDERS: FRANCE AND GERMANY
IN TUR UKREP JLG REPORTED HIS CONVERSATION WITH GUO IN WHICH HE HAD SAID THAT HKG HAD STARTED INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS ON THIS SUBJECT AS HE (GUO) HAD SUGGESTED. WE WILL INTERPRET ''INFORMAL'1 AS ALLOWING US TO AGREE TEXTS OF AGREEMENTS AT DELEGATION LEVEL BUT NOT/NOT TO INITIAL THEM UNTIL THE CHINESE GIVE US THEIR FORMAL AGREEMENT. WE WILL, OF COURSE, INFORM OUR INTERLOCUTORS OF THE SITUATION.
2. WE ARE PLANNING TO SEND A DELEGATION LED BY LO(IL) TO FRANCE AND GERMANY IN EARLY SEPTEMBER FOR INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS ON FUGITIVE OFFENDERS AGREEMENTS. GIVEN THE INFORMAL STATUS OF THE TALKS AND CHINESE SENSITIVITIES ON ENTRUSTMENTS, WE BELIEVE IT WOULD BE PREMATURE FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO MAKE A FORMAL ENTRUSTMENTS AT THIS STAGE. THAT CAN FOLLOW CHINESE AGREEMENT TO ''FORMAL' NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE COUNTRIES CONCERNED.
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