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TELEGRAM NUMBER 1929 OF 30 NOVEMBER

INDEX

- 3 DEC 1979

INFO PRIORITY UKREP ICAO MONTREAL, HONG KONG (FOR GOVERNOR AND BCARFE), ROUTINE BANGKOK, PARIS, BONN, ROME, WASHINGTON SAVING TO HANOI (BANGKOK PLEASE PASS).

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See MY TELNO.1015 (NOW REPEATED. SAVING TO HANOI): CAAC NOTAM 19: AMBER ONE.

1.

HARD ON THE HEELS OF OUR REPRESENTATIONS TO CAAC, WE

HAVE RECEIVED A COPY OF A STATEMENT ISSUED IN HANOI ON 28

NOVEMBER ATTACKING CHINA'S DECLARATION OF DANGER ZONES AND

THE ADVANCEMENT BY CHINA OF A NUMBER OF STIPULATIONS'' ON

CIVIL AVIATION, WHICH ARE SAID TO BE INTENDED TO LEGALISE

CHINA'S OCCUPATION OF THE HOANG SA ISLANDS. THE STATEMENT

CONCLUDES: ''ANY STIPULATION BY A FOREIGN COUNTRY, ANY AGREEMENT OF THAT COUNTRY WITH A THIRD COUNTRY, INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS OR

FOREIGN COMPANIES DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY RELATING TO VIETNAM'S

3OVEREIGNTY OVER HOANG SA AND TRUNOG SA ISLANDS - WHETHER ON THE GROUND, IN THE AIR, ON THE SEA, THE SEA BED OR MARITIME SUBSOIL - IS ILLEGAL AND ABSOLUTELY INVALID.''

2.

WHATEVER CHINA'S MOTĪVES MAY HAVE BEEN IN SEEKING A RE- ALIGNMENT OF AMBER ONE, THIS VIETNAMESE REACTION IS PREDICT-

ABLE AND MUST INCREASE DOUBT AS TO WHETHER A RE-ALIGNED AMBER

ONE WOULD BE VIABLE, IN OUR DISCUSSIONS WITH THE CHINESE

WE HAVE CONFINED OURSELVES TO THE PRACTICAL REASONS FOR

REOPENING AMBER ONE AS AT PRESENT DELINEATED: THEY WOULD HARDLY

BE RESPONSIVE TO ARGUMENTS BASED ON DISPUTED SOVEREIGNTY OVER

THE ISLANDS.

BANGKOK PLEASE SAVING TO HANOI.

CRADOCK

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LORD.N.G. LENNOX. MR FERGUSSON MR FRET WELL

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