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YOUR TELNO 691:

UK/PRC AIR SERVICES

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But we

1. We sympathise with your difficulties.

hope that you can make one further attempt to seek

CAAC's agreement to full B707 capacity for December.

With Christmas and the lunar New Year in prospect,

CAAC may yet be amenable to persuasion.

2. If Lu continues to refuse to see you, it may be

best to write to CAAC, copying to MFA as you suggest,

protesting at CAAC's failure to comply with the

spirit of last August's agreement and drawing fully on

the material in paragraph 2 of Hong Kong telno 1027

(which contains points such as threats of retaliatory

action against CAAC's extra sanctions and charters

• /which

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