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Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1A 2AH
T Stables Esq Department of Trade CAIR 2 - Room 520 1 Victoria Street LONDON SW1
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9 July 1979
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Dear Tom,
UK/MALAYSIA AIR SERVICES
As agreed at Christopher koberts' meeting this morning, I suggest below a paragraph for the telegram to Hong Kong which will be sent once your Ministers have agreed the line which is to be taken at next week's talks:
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"The Malaysians continue to attach great importance to the expansion
· of their non-domestic services, and are making our reception of . their demands an issue of confidence between us. It is a sticking. point and a question of face for them that even if no further increased rights can be conceded, they should not be asked to abandon those they already enjoy. Hussein Onn took the matter up strongly with Lord Carrington in Kuala Lumpur recently, stressing that if in the negotiations we did not show consideration for Malaysian interests, anti-British groups would try to exploit this to the detriment of our overall relations and would make things more difficult for the Government on Concorde. Bearing in mind Malaysia's own difficulties over Vietnamese refugees, and our own limited ability to help them over this, we feel under strong pressure to offer them the continuation of their existing 5th Freedom rights beyond Hong Kong in the hope that this will enable us to clinch a new agreement with them without further delay.
RP Flower
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South East Asian Department
cc: MAED, FCO
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