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CONFIDENTIAL

(b) Is action to be joint or separate? We assume

ti the intention is that all adherents to the

Statement should take action, whatever the answer to

(a) above.

(c) A related question to (b) is whether there should

be provision for consultations between adherents to the

Statement before action is taken. This would ensure

that action was taken in concert; but care would be

needed to avoid any country exercising a veto. The

record of the Bonn Summit establishes a presumption

that all Seven will act without further concertation.

But this might be required in cases where differences

of interpretation arose.

(a) Is it intended that action be taken against a

country which, during a hijacking, declined to detain

an aircraft and agreed to refuel it? Action against

such Governments was advocated by Chancellor Schmidt

and President Giscard, but it was agreed that the

details should be settled in future discussions by

Foreign Ministers; and the Secretary of State.

suggested that Foreign Ministers should be asked to

agree to a code of conduct to provide a "degree of

flexibility to meet different considerations".

seems particularly advisable in order to prevent a

situation in which air passengers' lives are

endangered because a refusal to refuel leads the

hijackers to murder some of the passengers.

A

This

prolonged action of allowing an aircraft to travel from

one airport to another has sometimes proved the best

way to deal with an incident, because it wears the

hijackers down and makes them more ready to give up.

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