described above. One such "new" ASA was signed with Brunei in
January this year, and negotiations for others are in prospect. Again, on completion of negotiations, a copy of the initialled texts
of such ASAs are shown to the Chinese in order to ensure that they
are in a form capable of continuing after 1997.
9.
The most complex area of air services to be tackled, both now
and with a view to preserving Hong Kong's autonomy beyond 1997, is
the UK/Hong Kong/PRC relationship. It is not possible for Hong
Kong's civil aviation relationship with the UK before 1997 to be
governed by a straightforward "separated" ASA, since a treaty cannot
be concluded between two parts of the same state. Similar
considerations will apply to the air services relationship between Hong Kong and the rest of the PRC after 1997.
10.
Negotiations on the bilateral relationship between the UK and
Hong Kong concluded with agreement in February 1989 on a new package
providing inter alia for parity of frequencies for UK and Hong Kong
airlines.
11. Scheduled services between Hong Kong and China are currently
regulated by the Confidential Memorandum of Understanding on
regional routes associated with the 1979 UK/PRC ASA. It has been
supplemented by seasonal inter-airline commercial agreements
concerning services between Hong Kong and Peking and Shanghai, and
by inter-Governmental arrangements on services to Peking concluded in November 1985. UK/PRC negotiations are currently in progress, with a further round of talks having begun on 11 April 1989. These
negotiations will include discussion of revised Hong Kong/PRC air
services arrangements.
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