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TO BE RESOLVED BUT ROGERS SAID HE DOUBTED IF WE COULD IN THE TIME AVAILABLE. THAT ASIDE, A NUMBER OF THE ASSUMPTIONS MADE DEPENDED ON THE OUTCOME OF THE PRESENT ICAP IMBROGLIO AND IT WOULD NOT BE POLITICALLY ACCEPTABLE FOR THE UK AT THIS STAGE TO BE SEEN TO BE AGREEING WITH ONE ASEAN MEMBER ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON THE FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF ICAP WHICH ASEAN WAS STILL OPPOSING. THE MOST ROGERS FELT HE COULD SAY ON THE QUESTION OF CAPACITY ON THE TRUNK ROUTE WAS THAT, GIVEN ACCEPTANCE OF CERTAIN ASSUMPTIONS, SOME ADDITIONAL CAPACITY APPEARED TO BE NECESSARY IN 197/80. HE HOPED THE DIFFICULTIES ARISING FROM ASEAN'S SUPPORT FOR SINGAPORE WOULD SOON BE SETTLED AND THAT IT WOULD THEN BE POSSIBLE TO REACH AGREEMENT ON THE FIGURE AT THE NEXT ROUND.
9. HAMZH SAID HE WOULD LIKE AN AGREED DOCUMENT SUMMARISING THE DISCUSSIONS, ROGERS TOLD HIM THAT HE HIMSELF HAD NO NEED FOR AN AGREED RECORD SEMI COLON BUT HE UNDERTOOK TO PRODUCE A DRAFT WHICH WOULD CONCENTRATE ON THE SOLID PROGRESS THAT HAD BEEN MADE AT THIS ROUND. HOWEVER, WHEN HE PREPARED A DRAFT ON THESE LINES AND HANDED IT TO HAMZAH IN A PRIVATE SESSION, THE LATTER PRODUCED A DRAFT OF HIS OWN WHICH TENDED TO EMPHASISE THE AREAS OF DISAGREEMENT AND WHICH INCORPORATED SOME MISSTATEMENTS OF OUR POSITION. IN A LENGTHY TETE-A-TETE, ROGERS PERSUADED HIM TO AMALGAMATE THE BEST FEATURES OF BOTH, SUBJECT TO CERTAIN PASSAGES WHICH WERE PUT IN SQUARE BRACKETS FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION. HOWEVER, WHEN THE DRAFT, AS THUS REVISED, WAS RETYPED AND CONSIDERED IN PLENARY SESSION, JH AMZAH DISAVOWED IT AND INSISTED ON REVERTING TO HIS OWN DRAFT.
10. WHEN ROGERS POINTED OUT SOME OF THE ERRORS IN THE LATTER, HAMZAH WENT BACK WITH AN ILL GRACE TO THE COMP ROMISE DRAFT SEMI COLON BUT HE MADE NO ATTEMPT AT SECURING POSITIVE AMENDMENTS AND SOON CALLED FOR A RECESS. AFTER AN INTERVAL HE RETURNED AND SAID THAT HE HAD CONSULTED HIS (UNSPECIFIED) HIGHER AUTHORITY. HE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED TO OFFER US TWO ALTERNATIVES, NAMELY
A.
A NOTE SAYING THAT WE HAD BEEN UNABLE TO REACH AGREEMENT ON THE RECORD OF THE MEETING (THE TWO ORIGINAL DRAFTS WOULD
BE ATTACHED TO THIS) SEMI COLON OR
B. NO RECORD AT ALL.
ROGERS OPTED FOR THE LATTER, AND THE MEETING BROKE UP QUIETLY AT A FEW MINUTES BEFORE MIDNIGHT.
fu. IT
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