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TO IMMEDIATE OSLO TELEGRAM NUMBER 158 OF 21 PECEMBER AND TO IMMEDIATE COPENHAGEN STOCKHOLM

INFO ROUTINE UKREP BRUSSELS AND WASH PICTON UKREP (ICAO) MONTREAL (OTTAWA PASS)

INFO SAVING OTHER EEC POSTS AND HONG KONG (GOVERNOR)

UK/SCANDANAVIA AIR SERVICES AGREEMENTS

DEITZ, COUNSELLOR (ECONOMIC), NORWEGIAN EMBASSY, ACCOMPANIED BY A MEMBER OF THE SWEDISH AND OF THE DANISH 57:BASSIES CALLED ON GOODENOUGH MAED AT 1503 HRS TODAY, DEITZ, HORWEGIAN

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EMBASSY, SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE THREE SCANDANAVIAN COUNTRIES, 3/13 THEIR GOVERNMENTS HAD DECIDED TO DENOUNCE THE THAGS AIR SERVICES ACREEMENTS WITH THE UK. EACH REPRESENTATIVE HANDED OVER AN IDENTICAL NOTE (SFE MY FIRST ITT) DELTZ ADDED THAT

ICAO HOULD BE INFORMED. THE MISSIONS WOULD BE RELEASING A PRESS STATEMENT AT 1700 HRS TODAY (TEXT IN MY SECOND IFT),

THE SCANDANAVIANS UNDERSTOOD THAT WE WERE READY TO RESUME

NEGOTIATIONS NEXT MONTH.

WE

2. GOODTHOUGH ACCEPTED THE NOTES AND REFERRED TO THE LONG

HE SAID AND SATISFACTORY OPERATION OF THE ASAS SINCE 1952. WE THOUGHT THAT THE ASAS HAD WORKED SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE SCANDANAVIANS' FAVOUR. THE ISSUES RETWEEN US WERE RELATIVELY PIMOR WHEN SEEN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WHOLE OF THE ASAS. WERE SURPRISED AT THE SCANDANAVIAN SOTION.

TAKE SUCH A DRASTIC STEP SO SCON. CONSIDER OURSELVES BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THE ASAS UNTIL THEY EXPIRED ON 31 DECEMBER 1978, AND ASKED PEITZ IF THE SCANDANAVIANS

ID THE SE, BLEW COLLA, DUS

IT SEEMED HASTY TO

GOODENOUGH SAID WE WOULD

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