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You may wish to refer to the following papers for your meeting with Lord Belstead, FED and MAED on 8 July:
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the submission to Lord Belstead dated 30 April outlining the background of the present difficulties and, subject to the Governor's agreement, recommending warning CAAC that we were contemplating serving notice of termination of the CMU;
the EXCO memorandum discussed on 8 June;
Hong Kong's telno 607 of 9 June reporting EXCO's advice;
our telno 483 of 25 June in reply.
As you know, Mr Sproat will be visiting Hong Kong on 20 July and he may wish merely to clear his lines with Lord Belstead before discussing the subject with the Hong Kong Government. If he proposed to attempt to persuade the Governor to override EXCO's advice, that is up to him; but we should advise Lord Bestead to hold the line that, so long as the Governor feels that the wider issues related to the future are more important than the balance of advantage in the Hong Kong/PRC air services, he should be supported in this. In this connection, it is helpful that Mr Sproat has himself previously accepted that the agreement of the Governor would be necessary before any notice of intention to withdraw from the CMU was given.
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R J F Hoare
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