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4, WE WILL CHECK WITH DFA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
5. MY TELEGRAM 92 TO KUALA LUMPUR SHOULD HAVE BEEN NUMBERED NO.1.
6. KUALAL LUMPUR PLEASE PASS URGENTLY TO ROGERS.
FCO PSE PASS TO ALL.
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UK AUSTRALIA AIR SERVICES
THE WEEKEND PRESS HAS REPORTED A STATEMENT BY FOREIGN MINISTER MOCHTAR, DESCRIBING AUSTRALIA'S READINESS TO NEGOTIATE WITH ASEAN ABOUT AUSTRALIAN/UK FARES 'AS A MANIFESTATION OF AUSTRALIA'S DETERMINATION TO MAINTAIN FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH THE ASEAN MEMBER NATIONS''. MOCHTAR IS REPORTED TO HAVE WELCOMED PEACOCK'S LETTER AS A ''PROGRESSIVE STEP'' BECAUSE IT STRESSED THAT ''THE NEGOTIATIONS WILL BE HELD WITH ASEAN AS ONE BLOC””.
2. MOCHTAR SAID IT WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE TO HOLD NEGOTIATIONS THIS WEEK, SINCE THE ASEAN CIVIL AVIATION OFFICIALS MUST HAVE PREPARATORY DISCUSSIONS. MOCHTAR SAID THAT THE MALAYSIAN MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS WOULD COORDINATE THESE, AND WOULD DECIDE ON THE DATE SITE AND LEVEL OF THE TALKS WITH AUSTRALIANS.
3. THE MINISTER SAID IT WAS NOT EASY TO PREDICT WHAT STAND ASEAN WOULD TAKE BECAUSE TECHNICAL MATTER WERE INVOLVED. BUT HE ADDED ''THE RESULTS OF THE TALKS SHOULD NOT BENEFIT ONLY ONE ASEAN NATION AND HARM OTHER MEMBER STATES. WE MUST PUT TO GOOD USE THE SOLIDARITY AMONG ASEAN NATIONS AND FORWARD A
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1. DFA TOLD US TODAY THAT AS YET THEY HAVE NOT HAD A RESPONSE FROM THE ASEAN COUNTRIES TO THEIR SUGGESTION OF AN AUSTRALIAN/ ASEAN MEETING. CONTRARY TO WHAT WE WERE TOLD EARLIER, THE DFA SAID THAT THE LEVEL OF THE PROPOSED MEETING HAD NOT BEEN SPECIFIED IN MR PEACOCK'S MESSAGE TO DR MOCHTAR AND THE AUSTRALIANS HAD NOT, REPEAT NOT, YET TAKEN A VIEW ON WHETHER IT SHOULD BE AT OFFICIAL OR AT MINISTERIAL LEVEL.
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