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INFO HONG KONG (GOVERNOR AND BCARFE) AND BANGKOK (FOR ROGERS) FOLLOWING FROM BRYANT.

AIR SERVICE DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN UK/PHILIPPINES: AGREED MINUTE (SEE MIPT NUMBER 79 OF 15 FEBRUARY.)

1. FROM 12 FEBRUARY 1979 CONSULTATIONS TOOK PLACE IN MANILA

BETWEEN THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE

VIITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLES 10 AND 12 OF THE AIR SERVICES

AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO GOVERNMENTS WHICH WAS SIGNED

AT MANILA ON 31 JANUARY 1955.

2, THE PHILIPPINE DELEGATION WAS LED BY MR LEON H TIANSAY, MEMBER OF THE PHILIPPINE CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD (CAB), AND INCLUDED MR PACIFICO V AGCADILI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CAB, MR NESTOR GATBONTON, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CAB, MİSS VESTA CUYUGAN, MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, MR CONRADO DIMAANO, BOARD SECRETARY OF CAB; MS LETICIA DUNLAO, CAB, MR VICTORIANO P DUNGCA AND MR FELIPE Ĺ.

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GO ZON OF PHILIPPINE AIRLINES, THE UNITED KINGDOM

DELEGATION WAS LED BY MR PETER BRYANT, DEPARTMENT OF TRADE, AND INCLUDED MR GRAEME WILSON, BRITISH CIVIL

AVIATION REPRESENTATIVE IN THE FAR EAST, MR STEPHEN FRENCH, DEPARTMENT OF TRADE, MR NORMAN LATHAM, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AVIATION, HONGKONG, MR PETER NEWMAN, FIRST SECRETARY-COMMERCIAL OF THE BRITISH EMBASSY, MR GEOFFREY NOLAN AND MR ROBERT EBDON OF BRITISH AIRWAYS AND MR WILLIAM MCARTHUR OF CATHAY

PACIFIC AIRWAYS.

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3. THE DELEGATIONS REACHED BROAD AGREEMENT ON THE OVER-

ALL ROUTE STRUCTURE WITHIN WHICH PHILIPPINE AIRLINES AND

BRITISH AIRWAYS MIGHT, SUBJECT TO FINAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE AERONAUTICAL AUTHORITIES OF THE TWO COUNTRIES,

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