TNAG-2879-FCO40-4151-Agreements-between-the-Hong-Kong-Special-Administrative-Regi-1993 — Page 103

GOVERMENT HOUSE HONG KONG.

THU 30 SEP 93 08:35

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CONFIDENTIAL

2

The

periods

suggestions made in

As you said

allotted to each subject follow the paragraph 2 of my letter to you of 24 May.

in your reply of 23 June, it may be necessary to hold a second round on some of the subjects, but hope it may be possible to deal with outstanding points on most of them in correspondence. It seems unlikely that we shall be able to do much more than exchange views on VAA but we for our part would find that helpful.

we

We have not yet been able to finalise our teams for all the subjects, but at the moment it seems likely that we shall form up as follows. I shall lead for HKG on everything except VAA and ASA and David Skinner (Constitutional Affairs Branch) will sit for some of our discussions:

We

VAA

J

IPPA

Laurence Leung and David Edwards

David Edwards, Peter Bourton (Trade & Industry Branch) and David Leung (Industry Department}

ASA

Elizabeth Bosher, Thomas Yiu, Joanne Foakes and David Skinner

REJ

David Edwards and Patrick Hamlin ( Principal (WTI Counsel, Civil Division, Attorney General's Chambers, & John Munte.

Fugitive Offenders and MLA David Edwards, John Hunter (International Law Division) and Barbara Ellington (Security Branch)

will let you know a little nearer the time if any of the above changes.

I would appreciate as early a reply as possible so that we can finalise our travel and accommodation arrangements. Of course, if HMG have any comments on any of the subjects before we meet which you feel it would be useful to raise we shall be glad to hear from you. John Hunter is, understand, already in correspondence with Rod Bunten about certain aspects of Fugitive offenders and MLA.

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Kim's myards,

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Javid

(D M Edwards)

Law Officer (International Law)

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