TNAG-1176-FCO40-1478-Air-services-between-the-UK--China-and-Hong-Kong-1982 — Page 93

Mr Lu Ruiling Deputy Director

International Affairs Department

CAAC PEKING

30 June 1982

I have been asked by Mr H M G Stevens, Assistant Secretary of the Civil Aviation International Relations Division of the Department of Trade, to convey to you the following message:

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"In the light of your recent discussions with Mr Atkinson of the British Embassy in Peking, and with reference to your Note 212(2)of 2 June to the Embassy, I am sending you this message in order to reiterate the position of the United Kingdom concerning CAAC services between Hong Kong and Tianjin and Nanjing. You will recall that these services were the subject of discussion in the course of the air services consultations in Peking during March, and the position of the United Kingdom remains as I described it to you then.

You will recall that I discussed with you the United Kingdom's concern that services between Hong Kong and Tianjin and Nanjing had been used to carry traffic between Hong Kong and Peking and Shanghai. In the light of this concern, I informed you of our intention to vary CAAC's permits so as to make clear that traffic travelling directly to Shanghai and Peking should not be carried on the services to Nanjing and Tianjin. This variation was made shortly afterwards: its purpose was to ensure that CAAC operated in conformity with the arrangements agreed between our two governments concerning air services. As stated in the British Embassy's letter of 30 April, CAAC has been operating in breach of these new conditions in the operating permit by carrying traffic through to Shanghai

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