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FM BCARFE HONG KONG 2206447 JUN 79
TO PRIORITY DO T
TELNO.ALLOT 49 OF 22 JUNE,
INFO PRIORITY PORT MORESBY.
FOR STABLES FROM GAULD,
MKK 184/1. R...a
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Mr Wilkinson
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PORT MORESBY TELNOS, ALLOT 5 AND 6 TO BCARFE.
1. WILSON, AS YOU KNOW, IS ON LEAVE UNTIL SEPTEMBER,
2. PNG'S REFUSAL TO APPROVE CPA'S CHANGED OPERATING PATTERN WAS,
OF COURSE, FORESHADOWED DURING VISIT TO HONG KONG OF ANG REPRESENTATIVES ON 4 MAY (PARA.3 OF BCARFE ALLOT 25 TO YOU REFERS),
AND EVEN THOUGH GROUNDS FOR REFUSAL ARE EXTREMELY DUBIOUS, PNG AUTHORITIES ARE ACTING WITHIN THEIR RIGHTS UNDER PARA.2(B) OF AGREED MINUTE OF 26 JANUARY 1977.
3. THUS, INTERVENTION BY H.M.G ON CPA'S BEHALF WOULD SEEM TO HAVE
LITTLE CHANCE OF SUCCESS. INDEED, SUCH INTERVENTION WOULD PROBABLY BE COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE IN THAT CPA/ANG RELATIONS WOULD ONLY BE
FURTHER SOURED.
4. CPA (MILES) HAVE TOLD ME THAT THEY ARE ATTEMPTING, AT AIRLINE LEVEL, TO HAVE PNG DECISION REVERSED, I WOULD THINK, HOWEVER, THAT
THEIR CHANCES OF SUCCESS ARE SLIM.
5. DCA, HONG KONG (ADCOCK), MEANWHILE, CONSIDER IT MOST UNLIKELY
THAT THEY WOULD TAKE RETALIATORY ACTION AGAINST ANG.
6. THUS, IN THE CONTINUING ABSENCE OF ANY APPROVED INTER-AIRLINE AGREEMENT ON THE HONG KONG/PORT MORESBY ROUTE, CPA, IT SEEMS, WILL
SIMPLY HAVE TO BEAR THIS FURTHER ANG/PNG PETTINESS AS BEST THEY CAN
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