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FM PEKING 263439Z JUL 79
DESKBY FCO 260900Z DESKBY HONG KONG 2607807
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 671 OF 25 JULY.
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KICIVID MI PE
27 JUL1979
INFO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG.
FOLLOWING FROM DELEGATION.
(25) MY TELNO.670:
200
226
A 4
See 227
UK/PRC AIR SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS.
1. FOLLOWING A LAST MINUTE SPURT THE TALKS WERE SUCCESSFULLY CONCLUDED TODAY.
2. LU TELEPHONED ROGERS VERY EARLY THIS MORNING TO SUGGEST
A FINAL ATTEMPT TO RESOLVE THE OUTSTANDING ISSUES: AND AN INFORMAL MEETING WAS HELD IN ROGERS' ROOM AT WHICH SULLIVAN, LATHAM AND TWO CAAC REPRESENTATIVES WERE PRESENT.
3.
THE PROBLEM ABOUT ASPOSSIBLE JUNCTION OF SERVICES BY THE SAME AIRLINE AT HONG KONG WAS RESOLVED BY DELETING FROM THE DRAFT TEXT BOTH THE PROVISO THAT THE AIRLINE OPERATING THE REGIONAL SERVICES COULD BE A SUBSIDIARY OF AN AIRLINE OPERATING BETWEEN LONDON AND HONG KONG (FOR WHICH WE HAD PRESSED) AND THE ALTERNATIVE PROVISO THAT THE AIRLINE OPERATING THE REGIONAL TOUTES COULD NOT BE A SUBSIDIARY OF AN AIRLINE OPERATING BETWEEN LONDON AND HONG KONG (FOR WHICH THE CHINESE HAD PRESSED). THIS LEAVES A TEXT WHICH CLEARLY CONFORMS TO THE PROPOSAL IN HONG KONG TELNO.936.
40 IN ACCEPTING THIS SOLUTION LU STATED THAT IT DID NOT MEAN
THAT THE CHINESE HAD ABANDONED THEIR POINT OF VIEW. HOWEVER ROGERS MADE IT CLEAR THAT ONCE AN AIRLINE HAD BEEN DESIGNATED ON
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