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(b) Is action to be joint or separate? We assume
ti the intention is that all adherents to the
Statement should take action, whatever the answer to
(a) above.
(c) A related question to (b) is whether there should
be provision for consultations between adherents to the
Statement before action is taken. This would ensure
that action was taken in concert; but care would be
needed to avoid any country exercising a veto. The
record of the Bonn Summit establishes a presumption
that all Seven will act without further concertation.
But this might be required in cases where differences
of interpretation arose.
(a) Is it intended that action be taken against a
country which, during a hijacking, declined to detain
an aircraft and agreed to refuel it? Action against
such Governments was advocated by Chancellor Schmidt
and President Giscard, but it was agreed that the
details should be settled in future discussions by
Foreign Ministers; and the Secretary of State.
suggested that Foreign Ministers should be asked to
agree to a code of conduct to provide a "degree of
flexibility to meet different considerations".
seems particularly advisable in order to prevent a
situation in which air passengers' lives are
endangered because a refusal to refuel leads the
hijackers to murder some of the passengers.
A
This
prolonged action of allowing an aircraft to travel from
one airport to another has sometimes proved the best
way to deal with an incident, because it wears the
hijackers down and makes them more ready to give up.
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