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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
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布政司署 香港下亞厘畢道
ESBCR 30/936/89 (92) XI
*** Our Ref.:
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By fax and by mail
Ms Rosalind Marsden
Political Counsellor
British Embassy Tokyo
Dear Rosalind
سلم
29 July 1993
Hong Kong/Japan ASA Separation
Thank you for your letter of 2/ for your recent efforts on our t grateful
If w and the MOT.
The latter's idiosyncratic app: separation is a constant source of puzzlement.
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to
is
AS negotiation of a Hong Kong/Japan ASA essentially a technical exercise designed
preserve existing traffic rights and so to ensure continuity in air services before and after 1997, I find it difficult to imagine that their airlines' economic interests would be affected by it in
any way except in a positive general
sense.
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to
appears to be talking instead about possible modifications
the existing UK/Japan regional route arrangements to take account of market conditions. AS know, such modifications take place on a regular t They can naturally be contemplated in the course separation, but they are not integral parts exercise: and before the ASA has entered into need may well arise in the future for them to b
further.
-/In any case