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officers involved in the incident of 25 September (for which they publicly apologised at the time) had been dismissed.

(ii)

7.

Boundaries

I proposed a further round of boundary talks in early

March. They asked us to confirm in writing that it would be on

the basis of the previous round, ie. on the basis of the

conditional agreement reached then on the bay and sea

boundaries. Outside the meeting they told me that the

Guangdong Government was content with this agreement.

we.) We will follow up.

(iii)

8.

Cross-Border Crime

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Guangdong said that they had seized many more weapons than we had last year. They said they wanted further to strengthen cooperation between, against cross-border crime. They did not press us to return criminals we catch who are wanted in Guangdong.

Immigration

9.

We covered a number of non-contentious legal

immigration matters.

10.

On illegals I emphasised the need to clamp down on the Shekou-Lau Fau Shan route; and for anti-smuggling patrols to search for IIs as well as smuggled goods.

points.

They agreed to both

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