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Background
JOINT LIAISON GROUP (JLG)
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JLG has me t once in July and due to meet again in November. Smooth start and agreement on some points (eg Hong Kong's future in Asian Development Bank). Land Commission
progress.
has me t four times in Hong Kong. Good
AIR SERVICES
At first round of talks in Peking both sides agreed need for additional capacity on routes Hong Kong/China routes, particularly Peking. Hope to persuade Chinese to allow Cathay Pacific Airways (CPA) to operate scheduled
services to Peking and Shanghai and would like to
to leave
scope for other Hong Kong based airlines to operate
routes to other Chinese cities. Chinese seem against
idea of more than one Hong Kong based airline operating
into China or to any Hong Kong based airline operating to destinations other than Peking and Shanghai. We are
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