year. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster there-'
Core made and published a statement to the Council of
Ministers on 6 November that we could no longer accept
discrimination against Hong Kong, and would press most
resolutely for a change during the annual review in the
Autumn of 1974.
Possible Criticisms:
Unofficial Members, and the
business community,
will
Say that in discriminating
against our own colony we are sacrificing their vital
interests to our European policy.
Line to take (in public and with Executive Council and Legislative Council: The Prime Minister will wish
to emphasise that there was no chance of getting
agreement to a change in Hong Kong's favour this year;
AACSA for the and to reaffirm our determination to eliminatson of
discrimination against Hong Kong in the first annual
ド
review.
8.
Mass Transit
9.
Section to be added].
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Air Services. Hong Kong maintain and built their
own airport. HMG control the use of it, largely in the
world-wide interests of British Airways and to a lesser
extent of the Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific
Airways (CPA). This is a constant source of friction.
The Hong Kong Government have been urging us, for their
own political and commercial reasons, to license a
service to Hong Kong by the Scandinavian Airline, SAS.
The Hong Kong Government agreed, however, that it is
to their advantage, no less than ours, to maintain the.
value of Hong Kong as a bargaining counter in
negotiations over air traffic rights, and that there is
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