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Jill Barrett

Legal Advisers

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3 MAR 1993

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LETTER FROM ARTICLE XIX

1.

Miss Francis D'Souza of Article XIX has written to Mr Goodlad in reply to his previous letter of 3 February (attached). I should be grateful for any comments you might have on here letter, particularly on whether she is correct in her paragraph 4 to say that the JD envisages that interpretation of the Basic Law should be a matter for the Hong Kong judiciary.

With apologies for the brief deadline, I should be grateful for a response by 4 March.

2.

RAS But

RAJ Bunten

Hong Kong Department

WH 305

270 2655

2 March 1993