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New ASAs

Speaking Note on ASAs

Han

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The

occasions

British

side has explained on a number of

that it is necessary for Hong Kong to be

authorized to open negotiations of Air Services Agreements

countries outside the List of 24.

(ASAS) with

Such

negotiation are to proceed in accordance with the three

guiding principles agreed in November 1988.

2.

Aviation links between Hong Kong and new aviation

partners continue to develop.

services

are

For example,

scheduled

currently operating under temporary

arrangements between Hong Kong and Vietnam, Cambodia and

Mauritius.

These services meet the needs of the travelling

public and they foster economic and trade links between

Hong Kong and those places. In each case, services by the

airlines of both sides are

operating

satisfactorily.

However, in order to provide a secure and durable framework

for

continuing investment by the airlines of either side,

more formal legal agreements are necessary.

3.

The British side consider that it is now time for

Hong Kong to seek to conclude an ASA with each of these new

would, in the view of the

partners.

British

Failure to do So

side, prevent Hong Kong airlines from responding as

effectively as they should to development in these aviation