TNAG-0866-FCO40-1076-Involvement-of-Hong-Kong-in-air-services-agreements-1979 — Page 106

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GR 250

UNCLASSIFIED

FM HANOI 248188Z OCT 79

TO ROUTINE FCO

TELEGRAM NUMBER 280 OF 24 OCTOBER.

AND TO ROUTINE DOT (CAIR)

HKK 184/1

RECEIVED

AS ANTY MO. §. 2 5 OCT 1979

INTUCK

INFO ROUTINE HONG KONG (FOR GOVERNOR AND BCARFE), BANGKOK, MONTREAL (UKREP ICAO), PEKING.

CAAC NOTAM 19 AND AMBER ONE.

1.

VIETNAMESE FOREIGN MINISTRY ISSUED FOLLOWING STATEMENT

01 22 OCTOBER:

BEGINS

''ON SEPTEMBER 3, 1979, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE FOREIGN MINISTRY

OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM ISSUED A STATEMENT

COMPLETELY REJECTING THE JULY 23, 1979 COMMUNIQUE OF THE CHINESE GENERAL DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AVIATION WHICH STIPULATED 'FOUR DANGER AREAS ON THE INTERNATIONAL WATER'S AND ON THE TERRITORIAL

SEA OF VIET NAM'S HOANGSA ARCHIPELAGO.

''THE VIETNAMESE FOREIGN MINISTRY ONCE AGAIN AFFIRMS VIET NAM’S SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE HOANGSA ARCHIPELAGO, AND ENERGETICALLY CONDEMNS THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES FOR SERIOUSLY VIOLATING INTERNATIONAL LAW ON FREE AVIATION, OVER THE INTERNATIONAL WATERS AND HAMPERING THE AIR TRANSPORTS BY THE COUNTRIES CONCERNED. THE UNILATERAL STIPULATION OF 'FOUR DANGER AREAS?

BY CHINA AS MENTIONED IN THE COMMUNIQUE OF THE CHINESE GENERAL DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AVIATION IS ILLEGAL AND INVALID TO THE

SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM.

/"THE CHINESE