Mr Cortazzi
HKK 184/1 REZZIVED IN REGINAY KO. 51
D-BK
INDEX
CHINA/AIR SERVICES AGREEMENT
No
4 APR 1979
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16.4
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1. The Embassy in Peking have now reached agreement with the,
Chinese at official level ad referendum on a formula to resolve
the political question attaching to the signature of an Air
Services Agreement.
A
2.
B
The formula is set out at A.
It is acceptable to
Hong Kong, the Department of Trade, MAED, HKGD and the Legal
Advisers.
I t represents an improvement on the negotiating
position which you approved on 15 March, in that the Chinese no
Longer seem to be insisting on a written assurance about CAAC
and CAL aircraft not "coinciding" at Kaitak Airport.
3. We shall have to submit this agreed formula to Ministers
following the General Election.
However, this need not,
in our view, hold up the technical talks which we have already
suggested to the Chinese.
We need not explain this process
But we
of Ministerial consultation in detail to them.
should make clear that we cannot give them our formal and final
agreement to the formula at this stage; otherwise they might
feel we had deliberately misled them in the unlikely event
Ministers should be unwilling to accept the formula.
4 -
I submit a self-explanatory draft teleletter to Mr Cradock.
2 April 1979
CC:
Mr Murray
Mr Morland MAED Mr McLaren HKGD
CONFIDENTIAL
و السا
R C Samuel
Far Eastern Dept