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QUESTIONS ARISING OUT OF THE BONN STATEMENT ON AIR HIJACKING

Scope of the Agreement

1.

Is it intended that action should be taken against:

a) the flights of third countries (not members of the

Club) from guilty countries to Club countries?

b)

countries which refuel hijacked planes or only against

those where they end up?

Would the Club consult about hijacking of non-Club aircraft?

2.

3.

Are Governments to act individually or in concert?

is the nature of the Club?

What

4.

How should the Club react against a country which prose-

cuted a hijacker but gave him an absurdly small sentence?

5. What constitutes a hijacked aircraft? eg would action have

been required by the terms of this Statement in respect of the

Larnaca incident earlier this year when the terrorists, who had

kidnapped a number of hostages after killing the Egyptian Editor

of Al Ahram, demanded and were given an aircraft. Was that a

"hijacked aircraft"?

Legal Implications

6. Can action be legally justified against guilty countries,

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