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Fr Tesh's, Hanoi, letter of 2 Yarch to POLAD, long long and long Cong's telegram No.40 to Hanoi refer.

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I have discussed both with the PCT and we agree with Hong Kong's line. The CA Hong Kong is responsible for the control of ron-scheduled flights by foreign operators into Hong Kong are har les them on a case-by-case basis. Scheduled services are controlled by the US and in the past such services were operated under an exchange of notes of 1970 between the Erbassy and UFA in Saigon.

Unless you have any political or security points which should be taken account of by Hong Kong in agreeing to these on-scheduled flights, I surgeat

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we advise Hanoi to act in accordarce with paragraph 2 of the Hoig Doug telegram.

21 March 1978

GPA Boon

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