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FM KUALA LUMPUR 157995Z JUNE 79
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELEGRAM NUMBER 182 OF 15 JUNE
AND TO PRIORITY DOT BCARFE AND
INFO BANGKOK SINGAPORE MANILA
CONFIDENTIAL.
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19 JUN 1979
DESK OFF
GOVERNOR HONG KONG
JAY ARTA CANBERRA
Y TEL NO 168: UK/MALAYSIA AIR SERVICES
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WELLINGTON
1. 1 CALLED ON THE PRIME MINISTER TODAY. ALTHOUGH HE SAID HE WAS VERY MUCH LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT AND WE HAD A RELAXED AND USEFUL TOUR D'HORIZON, THE FIRST SUBJECT HE BROUGHT UP WAS THE RECENT AIR SERVICES TALKS, HE SAID HE WAS CONCERNED BECAUSE THE IMPRESSION OF OFFICIALS ON THE MALAYSIAN SIDE WAS THAT THINGS HAD GONE BACKWARDS RATHER THAN FORWARD. HOWEVER HE CONCEDED THAT SOME OFFERS HAD BEEN MADE. HE DID NOT WANT TO GO INTO DETAILS, BUT HE AND THE MALAYSIAN SIDE REMAINED WORRIED ABOUT FIFTH FREEDOMS
BEYOND HONG KONG.
SAİD
2. I SAID THAT WE HAD A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. OUR OFFICIALS HAD ENTERED THE TALKS WITH THE OBJECT OF REACHING A REALISTIC SETTLEMENT. THEY AND I WERE VERY DISAPPOINTED TOO THAT AGREEMENT HAD NOT BEEN REACHED. DATUK HUSSEIN SAID THAT THE SUCCESSIVE ROUNDS OF TALKS HAD GONE ON FOR A LONG TIME AND THERE WERE STILL NO SOLUTIONS. THEY WISHED TO FIND ONE AND HAD TO HAVE SOME REASONABLE ACCORD, SO THAT THOSE WHO WISHED TO MAKE TROUBLE FOR HIS GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO SO, WE SHOULD HELP IN THE INTERESTS OF OVERALL ANGLO MALAYSIAN RELATIONS, TO WHICH HE ATTACHED SPECIAL IMPORTANCE ON ACCOUNT OF THE MANY BONDS BETWEEN OUR PEOPLES AND GOVERNMENTS. HE WAS WARM IN PRAISE OF THE COOPERATION WHICH
HAD EXISTED AND STILL DOES BETWEEN MALAYSIA AND BRITIAN IN SO MANY
FIELDS.
3. I SAID THAT I HAD BEEN WONDERING HOW WE MIGHT MOVE FORWARD. IT SEEMED TO ME THAT, ALTHOUGH THE TECHNICAL ROOM FOR MANOEUVRE WAS SMALL, WITH REALISM ON THE PART OF THE MALAYSIANS, AND THE RIGHT
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