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TELNO GUIDANCE 102 OF 19 JULY.
BONN ECONOMIC SUMMIT: STATEMENT ON AIR HIJACKING
1. THE HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE US, WEST GERMANY JAPAN FRANCE, ITALY AND CANADA PARTIC- IPATING IN THE DONN ECONOMIC SUMMIT ISSUED THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT
ON 17 JULY:
THE HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT, CONCERNED ABOUT TERRORISM AND THE TAKING OF HOSTAGES, DECLARE THAT THEIR GOVERNMENTS WILL
INTENSIFY THEIR JOINT EFFORTS TO COMBAT INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM.
TO THIS END, IN CASES WHERE A COUNTRY REFUSES THE EXTRADITION OR PROSECUTION OF THOSE WHO HAVE HIJACKED AN AIRCRAFT AND/OR DOES NOT RETURN SUCH AIRCRAFT, THE HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT ARE JOINTLY RESOLVED THAT THEIR GOVERNMENTS SHALL TAKE IMMEDIATE
ACTION TO CEASE ALL FLIGHTS TO THAT COUNTRY. AT THE SAME TIME
THEIR GOVERNMENTS WILL INITIATE ACTION TO HALT ALL INCOMING FLIGHTS FROM THAT COUNTRY OR FROM ANY COUNTRY BY THE AIRLINES OF
THE COUNTRY CONCERNED. THEY URGE OTHER GOVERNMENTS TO JOIN THEM
IN THIS COMMITMENT,
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2, BRITAIN HAS, FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, ADVOCATED SANCTIONS AGAINST COUNTRIES WHICH HARBOUR TERRORISTS AND HIJACKERS BUT WE
HAVE BEEN CONCERNED THAT SANCTIONS WOULD NOT BE EFFECTIVE WITHOUT
WIDESPREAD INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT, THE SEVEN STATES WHICH MET IN
BONN REPRESENT MORE THAN HALF OF THE WORLD'S AIR TRAFFIC ON
INTERNATIONAL SCHEDULED SERVICES. WE BELIEVE THAT CONCERTED
ACTION BY THIS GROUP MAY THEREFORE BE EFFECTIVE.
3. AFTER THE BONN SUMMIT, THE PRIME MINISTER SAID IN THE HOUSE
ON 18 JULY:
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