APPENDIX 5
Letter from the FCO to the Second Clerk
of the Committee on the Annual Report on Human Rights, 19 January
2000
In your letter of 11 January you asked for further
information on a number of topics arising from the FCO's last
memorandum to the Committee on human rights.
Mark Hutton has written today to Paul Silk with
further comments on EU human, rights reports.
Your letter also asked about humanitarian intervention.
Discussion of our draft proposals on humanitarian intervention
with our international partners is continuing on an informal basis.
As you predicted in your letter, I am afraid we are not therefore
in a position to give the Committee further details at present.
But we will do so as soon as we have had time to take on board
partners' initial comments.
Investigations into the allegations in The
Independent that UK-made leg-irons are on sale in the US are
continuing but have not yet been completed. We are keen to ensure
that the full facts about this case are established before informing
the Committee of the results of our investigations. As soon as
this has been done, we will write to the Committee.
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