CONFIDENTIAL
TELELETTER
CONFIDENTIAL
TO:
P CRADOCK ESQ CMG
PEKING
FROM: RC SAMUEL,
FED
DATE: 4 APRIL 1979
HACK 184/2
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1. He Queinu 15/4
Mr Jamun
CAPR1979
No : Joss &
по
YOUR TELNO 337: AIR SERVICES AGREEMENT
Thank you for achieving this satisfactory outcome.
Interdepartmental agreement has now been reached at official
level here that we should recommend to Ministers immediately
after the election that we should proceed to an Agreement on the basis discussed between yourself and Song on 27 March;
ie that, subject to the satisfactory completion of the technical
negotiations, we should make the public statement in FCO
Telno 204 with the minor amendments that the two countries should
be referred to by their full itles and the Agreement referred to as the "Air Services Agreement" (not "Aviation Agreement");
2- We should therefore be grateful if you would tell Song that departments in London have now agreed that we should go
forward on this basis.
As he will understand, in the present
electoral situation no one can commit the Government which will
take office following the 3 May election. But we believe that
the formula represents
and hope we can now set the technical talks in hand as soon as
possible, ie without waiting for US to consult Ministers here
after the election.
a mutually acceptable basis for agreement
3.
We have taken note of Song's point about aircraft belonging to CAAC and China Airlines not "coinciding" at Kaitak. THIS IS Å CA and
A OP
THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN
CLOSED UNTIL
UNDER FOI
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