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29 October 1992

Mr JN Marshall

Hong Kong Departmerit.

Foreign & Commonwealth Officer

United Kingdom

Dear Sir,

Emergency Diplomatic Clearance Request

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refer to your faxed letters of 20 and 28 October 1992 to Mr Tommy Yuen.

Obviously we in Hong Kong need the additional information such as the proposed list of sensitive countries and the special circumstances under which such clearance will not be allowed before we can come to a decision on whether The revised procedure can be accepted. However we can s00 the advantage of such a move in avoiding urgent exchanges al very short notice, which are not always necessary. We therefore do not have any objection in principle to the proposed new procedure, as long as the normal ATC procedures are followed. Since air traffic to and from Hong Kong is extremely buoy and landing and take off slots are fully utilized in peak periods, it must be emphasized that even if diplomatic clearance is waived the relevant flight can still

refused landing or asked

to rescheduled its arrival/departure timing for traffic reasons.

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I look forward LO receiving more details of the proposed procedure.

Yours faithfully

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(P. W. Leung }

for Secretary for Economic Services

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