UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED
FM FCO
TO IMMEDIATE CANBERRA
TELNO 308
OF 181458Z AUGUST 93
RECEN
181/12.
STRY
i
AUD 1993
DSK C
INDEX
INFO PRIORITY HONG KONG
8
PA
REGISTRY Action Taken
YOUR
163571
MDHOAN 6947
YOUR TELNO 449: UK/HONG KONG/AUSTRALIA AIR SERVICES
Grateful if
We are pleased that Australians have confirmed the UK original text is to be used for exchange of letters.
follows: you could now initiate this using text as
1.
BEGINS
I have the honour to refer to the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia for air services between and beyond their respective territories signed at London on 7 February 1958, as amended, and to propose that the said Agreement shall be further amended as follows:
(I) At the end of Article 1(1) (c) immediately after the words quote that State unquote there shall be inserted the words quote provided that Hong Kong shall not be regarded as territory of the United Kingdom except, until 30 June 1997, for the purposes of Article 2(3) unquote.
(II) In the Schedule to the Agreement setting out the routes to be served by the airlines of the United Kingdom and of Australia, Routes II and III in Section A and in Section B shall be deleted.
If the foregoing proposal is acceptable to the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia I have the honour to suggest that this Note and Your Excellency's reply shall constitute an Agreement between our two governments which shall enter into force on the date on which an Air Services Agreement between the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of Hong Kong enters into force.
I avail myself, etc.
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