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nor of the Caymans had asked for an extension to give him an opportunity to discuss the matter with the CAA. TCI was a particular problem since its airports lacked even the basic expertise and equipment necessary to guarantee minimum safety standards. We should bear in mind that TCI airports were used by Panam. The Governor had now agreed with MAED that TCI would produce quarterly safety reports;
in this way, it was hoped, the authorities could be made to treat this question as a matter of high priority,
particularly as HMG would be held responsibile for any major accident at a DT airport. As things currently stood, we were very vulnerable.
17. Mr Halley then turned to aviation security. DTP had drawn attention to the obligation incumbent on the DTs to satisfy ICAO requirements by producing national aviation security programmes. Moreover, a recent US Federal Aviation Authority ruling required that details of last port of departure security arrangements be lodged with the US authorities. This ruling had implications for several DTS eg Cayman Islands, Bermuda. The UK's Department of Transport had agreed to act as the body to which the US authorities would turn for the required information. But it was necessary for the DTs concerned to draw up detailed security programmes.
18. Mr Mills observed that the CAA nowadays found itself pressed for funds to pay for necessary visits by its officials to the DTS. Miss Robinson considered that this was not in fact a problem. In recent discussions with CAA officials, she had learned that an appropriate pocket of funding was available. Mr Turner asked whether an air safety certificate should not be required from the US-operated airport on BIOT. Mr Halley undertook to look into this matter
19. Finally, Mr Halley referred to the Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order, "the Bible of Civil Aviation." The DTs were still operating under the 1977 order which had not been reviewed in 1985 when the UK Order was redrafted. The matter was
A now being rectified. revised order for the DTs was now in its final redraft. Hong Kong had now been issued with its own separate Order.
Item 5 Aid Matters
20.
Miss Cooke raised the question of the OCT Decision. She had been concerned to notice that a recent paper prepared by ODA's European Community and Food Aid Department had appeared to rule out Pitcairn from receiving aid from OCT sources. She had received an oral assurance from ECFAD that the paper had not intended to convey such an
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implication, but she was not entirely convinced. Pitcairn had a subsistence economy and was dependent on aid (eg for new dispensary, mobile crane). New generators were needed from OCT sources. Miss Robinson advised that SPD should contact the appropriate geographical desk in ODA to seek support. Miss Eddis thought that Pitcairn may have been omitted from the paper purely for convenience of argument. Since the Territory's very smallness meant it was
not a relevant factor in the major question of allocating shareouts in OCT funds between UK, French and Dutch DTS.
Item 6
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Constitutional and Legal Matters
Nothing was raised under
raised under this item.
Item 7 AOB
Telegrams
Governors' Personal Series
22. Mr January reported that in response
in response to the recent questionnaire both HKD and WIAD had expressed a wish to retain the Governors' Personal telegram series. Hence there were no plans to abolish it.
Extension of Territorial Seas
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23.
Dr Harkin pointed out that FID planned that a draft Order in Council extending territorial waters around the Falklands would be submitted to the Privy Council in November. They had hoped that, to serve as cover, territorial waters round Caymans, Ascension, St Helena would be extended at the same time. FID hoped for WIAD's support in this matter. Mr January replied that he was aware of these plans which WIAD supported. the matter up with WAED.
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