Miss Brown
Mr Butler
CONFIDENTIAL
Hkk 184/1
RECENT
INDEX
2 4 JUL 1978
OFFICER
PA
8.51
REGISTRY Action Taken
No
f
433
Pa
A
PS/Mr Judd
UK/AUSTRALIA AIR SERVICES
Introduction
See434445
Ministers are asked to consider the attached submission
agreed by FCO and DOT officials on an Australian proposal for
•
radical revision of the air services arrangements between
Australia and all countries with services to Australia, and
its implications for the UK.
2.
There is a difference between FCO and DOT officials on
tactics vis-a-vis the Australians which Ministers are asked to
consider (para.8).
Recommendation
3.
I recommend:
i)
that FCO Ministers approve the Recommendation in
the attached paper, namely that the Australians
should as soon as possible be given a written
answer on the lines of the draft at B and should
be told orally that we would have no objection to
the Australians showing it to third countries
which they approached, if asked what the UK
reaction had been.
ii) that Mr Judd write to ir Dell to argue that a
further
/meeting
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