TNAG-0867-FCO40-1077-Air-services-between-China--Hong-Kong-and-the-UK-1979 — Page 123

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CURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret,

Secret.

Confidential.

Restricted.

Unclassified

IVACY MARKING

CONFIDENTIAL

DRAFT

TELELETTER

To:-

P Cradock Esq CMG PEKING

Type 1 +

From RC SAMUEL

Telephone No. Ext.

Department

DSR 11

D

In Confidence

YOUR TELNO 337: AIR SERVICES AGREEMENT

1.

outcome.

Thank you for achieving this satisfactory

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

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 titles

and the Agreement referred to as the "Air Services Agreement" (Not "Aviation Agreement");

E

2.

As he will

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.

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 a mutually acceptable basis for agreement and

hope that 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.

THIS IS A COPY

THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN

CLOSED UNTIL

UNDER FOI

EXEMPTION NO.27 as ed..

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