TNAG-0781-FCO40-985-Involvement-of-Hong-Kong-in-air-services-agreements-1978 — Page 226

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AIR SERVICES

1. Sung has given us a clear nod and wink as to how we ought to proceed. If we can agree on form of words to be used in a public statement about our attitude to CAL, the other problems will not be insuperable. The two immediate problems therefore are to decide on:

(a) a form of words and

(b) the appropriate means of making them public

2. On (a), MIFT contains a proposed form of words. On (b) we think that a Ministerial statement in the House would be over-doing it. The options in

our order of preference are:-

(i)

a statement to be made in the course of a

press conference preferably in answer to a question