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FM UKREP JLG HONG KONG

TO PRIORITY

TELNO 028

FCO

OF 09080 OZ AUGUST 88

INFO PRIORITY PEKING, HONG KONG

CALL BY WANG: 8 AUGUST

HKC 031/24

146646 MBLIAN 8432

MAY SIGN NACA AGREEMENT. PROBLEMS 1. CHINESE CONFIRM HONG KONG

AFRICA ASAS. A HEAD OVER SEPARATION OF UK/SOUTH KOREA AND UK/SOUTH

NACA

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2. WANG JIAJI, ACCOMPANIED BY WANG WEIYANG, CALLED ON ME TODAY

CONFIRMING THEIR OWN REQUEST. HE READ A SPEAKING NOTE (COPY BY BAG) THAT QUOTE THE CHINESE SIDE HAS NO OBJECTION TO HONG KONG'S SIGNATURE AND RATIFICATION OF THE NACA AGREEMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN THE NACA AS THE GOVERNMENT OF A NON-SOVEREIGN AREA IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS PROVISIONS UNQUOTE. HE SAID SUBSEQUENT CONSULTATIONS ABOUT HONG KONG'S CONTINUED PARTICIPATION AS QUOTE HONG KONG, CHINA UNQUOTE AFTER 1997 SHOULD NOT POSE ANY PROBLEMS.

A SAS

3. I TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO FOLLOW UP WU'S REFERENCE LAST WEEK (MY TELNO 26) TO AIR SERVICES BETWEEN HONG KONG AND SOUTH KOREA, SOUTH AFRICA AND ISRAEL. I POINTED OUT THAT THE FIRST TWO MENTIONED WERE ON THE LIST OF 24 AND ASKED IF THE POINT OF WU'S QUESTION HAD BEEN THAT IN SOME WAY THE PRC'S LACK OF FORMAL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH THESE COUNTRIES MIGHT PRESENT PROBLEMS. WANG EXPLAINED THAT THIS WAS INDEED THE CASE. THERE WERE NO DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN PRC AND THESE THREE COUNTRIES CHE CONTINUED TO REFER TO ALL THREE)

IT WOULD THEREFORE AND IT WAS IFFICULT TO SEE THIS CHANGING BY 1997. CAUSE THE PRC PROBLEMS OF A DIPLOMATIC AND POLITICAL NATURE AFTER 1997 IF THE HKSAR WERE TO HAVE A FORMAL ASA WITH ANY OF THEM. WHEN

THE UK/KOREA ASA SEPARATION NEEDED TO A SKED WHETHER THIS MEANT THAT BE TREATED IN A DIFFERENT WAY FROM THE UK/CANADA ASA SEPARATION

INDICATED THAT EVEN IF A EXAMPLE, WANG REPLIED THIS WAS SO. HE

THE PROBLEM OF HOW IT SEPARATE HK/KOREA ASA WERE NEGOTIATED NOW MIGHT CONTINUE TO APPLY BEYOND 1997 WOULD BECOME MORE AND MORE

SIDE WOULD NEED PRESSING AS THAT DATE APPROACHED. HENCE THE CHINESE TO GIVE VERY CAREFUL THOUGHT TO THE QUESTION OF CONTINUED

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