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1. AFTER MUCH DELAY CIVIL AVIATION DEPARTMENT AGREED RELUCTANTLY TO SEE ME TODAY. DEPUTY DIRECTOR, NGUYEN HUU THAN SAID THAT POLICY WAS TO REFUSE USE OF AMBER ONE TO ALL AIRCRAFT BEARING U.S. REGISTRATION. THE PROBLEM WAS PART OF THE WIDER ONE OF RELATIONS WITH USA. HE COULD DO NOTHING TO HELP AT THIS STAGE. IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION HE CONFIRMED THAT PAN AM HAD BEEN GIVEN PERMISSION TO USE AMBER ONE BUT EMPHASISED THAT THIS HAD BEEN GIVEN IN ORDER TO SHOW GOOD WILL TO ONE AMERICAN COMPANY: IT HAD BEEN AGREED BY ''HIGHER AUTHORITIES''. I DEPLOYED ARGUMENTS ABOUT VIETNAM DENYING HERSELF FOREIGN EXCHANGE AND POINTED TO APPARENT INCONSISTENCY BETWEEN AGREEING TO PAN AM WHILST REFUSING CPA AND A LEBANESE COMPANY (TRANSMERIDIAN?) TO WHICH THAN HAD REFERRED. THAN MERELY REPEATED HIS POSITION. HE AGREED THAT THE NEXT STEP MIGHT BE FOR ME TO APPROACH THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. I ASKED WHETHER THERE WAS ANYTHING CPA COULD DO TO HELP THINGS FORWARD. THANH REPLIED THAT HE WAS READY TO RECEIVE ANY CONCRETE SUGGESTIONS FROM CPA.
2. I WILL TAKE THE MATTER UP WITH MEA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AFTER CHRISTMAS BUT AM NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT CHANCES OF SUCCESS AT THIS STAGE. I BELIEVE VIETNAMESE WOULD BE OPEN TO OFFER OF FINANCIAL ENCOURAGEMENT (PARA 2 OF HONG KONG TELNO.1421 TO FCO).I KNOW LITTLE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND PRACTICE IN THE FIELD OF CIVIL AVIATION AND WOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR INSTRUCTIONS IF I AM TO CARRY THAT PARTICULAR ASPECT FURTHER. PERHAPS THE QUESTION OF FINANCIAL- ENCOURAGEMENT COULD MORE SUITABLY BE DEALT WITH BY CPA THEMSELVES.. I WOULD BE PREPARED TO TRY TO O TAIN A VISA FOR THEM IF THEY VISHED TO DISCUSS THE MATTER WITH VIETNAMESE AUTHORITIES HERE.
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