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RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF EVENTUALLY ARRIVING AT AN ARRANGEMENT WITH NEW ZEALAND WHICH DIFFERED FROM THAT WITH AUSTRALIA AND HE NOTED HEALY'S COMMENT THAT SIA'S CARRIAGE OF UK/NEW ZEALAND TRAFFIC COULD IN PRACTICE BE CONTAINED BY NEW ZEALAND RESTRICTING SIA'S CAPACITY ON THE SINGAPORE-AUCKLAND SECTOR TO ITS PRESENT LEVEL. BUT HE COUNSELLED PATIENCE DURING THE PERIOD WHILE THE AUSTRALIA/ASEAN
SITUATION WAS SORTED OUT. HE HOPED THIS WOULD NOT BE LONG.
12. HEALY DID NOT CONCEAL HIS DISAPPOINTMENT AT NOT BEING ABLE
TO REACH ANY FIRM CONCLUSION AND SAID HE WOULD BE REPORTING TO HIS MINISTER. HE ASKED WTHETHER ROGERS WOULD FIT ANOTHER VISIT TO NEW ZEAL AND INTO HIS ITINERARY ONCE THE POLITICAL PROBLEMS WITH ASEAN WERE RESOLVED: AND WHEN THE LATTER RESPONDED THAT, IF HE WERE IN THE AREA, HE WOULD DO HIS BEST TO DO SO, HEALY INDICATED THAT THIS
MIGHT SUFFICE TO HOLD THE POSITION FOR A WHILE.
13. IT WAS AGREED THAT NO PRESS STATEMENT SHOULD BE ISSUED AND THAT THE RESPONSE TO ANY PRESS ENQUIRIES SHOULD BE ON THE LINES THAT THE DISCUSSIONS HAD BEEN OF A PURELY EXPLORATORY NATURE.
14.
IT WAS ALSO AGREED THAT BA AND ANZ SHOULD ATTEMPT TO RECONCILE SOME DIFFERENCES OF A SEMI-TECHNICAL NATURE BETWEEN
THEIR RESPECTIVE PROPOSALS, IN PREPARATION FOR FURTHER INTERGOVERN- MENTAL DISCUSSIONS AS SOON AS THE TIME WAS RIPE.
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