ptg.dbj
Mr
Morris
Mw, Bicketts
PTG SUBMISSION
SUBMISSION
We can dismiss at yr. Convenience.
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Mr
Barnes- Jones
Submitted
(5):
1. I now attach an amended draft reflecting comments from Miss Brooks and Mr Savage.
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2. I agree with Miss Brooks' amendments but find the language she suggests for the second part of paragraph 5 longwinded (maybe it needs to be). I have put original and amended drafting side by side for this section.
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3. Please see Mr Savage's comments. At an earlier stage, I thought that OED agreed that we could not argue against Hong Kong's right to expropriation under certain circumstances (apparently they are not convinced) and that we should go for a package which would include reliance on international law underpinned by a favourable formula for working out compensation spelt out in the PTG. His comments here give rather a different slant. I would be reluctant to include any of his language in paragraph 1 as I think that we are stuck with SC 14 and so must seek to get the best deal possible on it rather than trying (again) to get HKG to drop it entirely. (If we do end up with a malevolent SAR, they could find a reason to expropriate one way or another, wo we might as well arm ourselves as best we can). On his last two sentences, you will recall that this point was argued in the opposite sense at the meeting by Miss Brooks. It does not make any difference to the Submission - it is a point for inclusion or not in our version of SC 14. I went over Miss Brooks' arguments with Mr Savage he was not convinced. have a strong view on what way to play it. I have not amended the draft at B in the sense of Mr Savage's minute.
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I do not
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Deborah Barnes Jones
Hong Kong Department
WH 312
Date
270 2068
HKD 4061
RF
12 JAN 1993
IN
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