(Clearwisdom.net)

06 February 2003

Dear Ms Yip,

Thank you for your letter. I am not able to be with you on 8th February but you may assure participants that I am totally opposed to the introduction of Article 23 legislation of the Basic Law of Hong Kong. I believe that this would violate the basic rights and freedoms which we value so much in this country and which are fundamental to any civilised society.

Yours sincerely

Dictated by the Bishop of Oxford and signed in his absence by his personal assistant