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3. HE ALSO SPOKE OF ATTEMPTS BY AUSTRALIA TO SPLIT ASEAN BY OFFERING CAPACITY INDUCEMENTS TO CERTAIN ASEAN CARRIERS WHILST REQUIRING SIA TO REDUCE CAPACITY BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND AUSTRALIA.
4. HE DID NOT SPECIFY WHEN AND HOW ASEAN WOULD RE-OPEN THE DIALOGUE WITH AUSTRALIA, BUT HINTED THAT THIS MIGHT BE AT THE ASEAN
FOREIGN MINISTER MEETING IN JULY TO WHICH MR PEACOCK WAS BEING INVITED.
5. MR GOH HOPED THAT THE UK WOULD USE ITS INFLUENCE WITH THE AUSTRALIANS AND PERSUADE THEM TO TAKE A MORE CONCILIATORY LINE, HE WAS TOLD THAT THE ECONOMICS OF THE NEW LOW THROUGH FARES WERE FINELY BALANCED AND DEPENDENT ON HIGH LOAD FACTORS. WE WOULD NOT WANT ANYTHING TO BE DONE WHICH THREATENED THEIR VIABILITY. MR PARKINSON SAID WE WOULD BEAR IN MIND WHAT MR GOH HAD SAID.
6, PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION TO THE AUSTRALIANS, EMPHASISING THAT MR GOH MAY NOT BE REFLECTING THE VIEWS OF ALL ASEAN MINISTERS (PARA 1 ABOVE) BUT SINGAPORE'S VIEW OF THE LINE THEY ARE LIKELY TO ADOPT UNDER SINGAPORE PRESSURE.
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