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British Embassy

Commercial Department

Electra House 115-117 Esteban St Legaspi Village Makati Metro Manila Philippines (PO Box 1970 MCC)

Telex PN 3282 (A/B PRODROME PN3282)

Telephone 85-30-02/9

Mr G N Lord

Department of Transport

International Aviation Directorate

Room S6/17

2 Marsham Street

London SW1P 3EB

Your reference

Our referenco

184/1

Date

13 April 1988

HONG KONG/PHILIPPINES AIR SERVICES

Dear Lord,

A brief reference, in the Communique issued after the 9th meeting of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group (FCO Telno 241 to Tokyo), to the progress made in concluding Hong Kong Air Services agreements, prompts me to enquire where we stand now on Hong Kong/Philippines Air Services. In your letter

of 9 September to Trevor Thorpe in the Civil Aviation Department in Hong Kong, you said "we may need to keep this particular negotiation on hold for a few more months".

Do you yet have a more preciso timescale in mind?

Yours ever

Philip Ridley

P J Priestley Charge d'Affaires

CC:

Mr J T Thorpe, Director of Civil Aviation HK MAED, FCO

Hong Kong Dept

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