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KEDIK VI

Mr Goodenough

Mr Morland

AIR SERVICES TALKS (16 JANUARY-15 FEBRUARY)

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1. A DOT delegation are currently holding talks in Dar-es-Salaam which should lead to the initialling of an ASA.

2. 13 January

The tour d'horizon on Anglo/French services in the Caribbean which M Boullet and Miss Braunton, were to have held has been postponed.

3. On 16 January the DoT delegation, at present in Dar-es-Salaam, start talks in Victoria, the Seychelles.

initialling of an ASA.

These talks are expected to lead to the

4. Also on 16 January Mr Standen, DoT, goes to The Hague for two days to finalise the CMU on KLM's service to Hong Kong and to discuss planned services between the Netherlands and UK provisional points.

5. The first round of the Scandinavian re-negotiation talks ielikely to begin on 30 January in London.

6.

Or. 9 February a meeting is scheduled to be held in Vientiane, to discuss the re-opening of Amber 1, the direct Airway between Bangkok and Hong Kong. Representatives from Vietnam, Thailand and Hong Kong will be present in addition to BCARFE and the Laotion hosts.

13 January 1973

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Mr Burrows EAD

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Maritime, Aviation and Environment Department