TNAG-2836-FCO40-4089-Air-Service-Agreements-between-Hong-Kong-and-South-Korea-1993 — Page 44

THE DEPARTMENT

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INTERNATIONAL AVIATION DIRECTORATE

P Longworth Esq Counsellor and

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12 January 1993

Dear Longworthin

HONG KONG/REPUBLIC OF KOREA AIR SERVICES

As was explained in FCO telegram no 490 of 11 December, we believe that the time is right to take ASA separation forward with the ROK. There have already been a number of informal contacts on this subject with the Korean authorities. I should be grateful if you could now arrange to call on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Transportation to let them know formally of our proposal. We have prepared a full Speaking Note for your use and in such a format that you can leave a copy with the Korean authorities (you will recall that in December I sent you for your own information a Background Brief and a list of Defensive Points in Question and Answer form).

Once you have made the points set out in the Speaking Note to the Korean authorities, and provided they raise no objection, you should explain to them that the UK authorities

authorities would like consultations to be held shortly on a separated ASA between the Government of the ROK and the Hong Kong Government. The agreed text would be signed by the Hong Kong Government on the specific authority of the Foreign Secretary. A draft Hong Kong/ROK ASA was recently passed for illustrative purposes to their Consulate General in Hong Kong. The Koreans may also be interested in seeing copies of the six separated Hong Kong ASAS which have already been signed and I should be grateful if Hong Kong would provide you with these, copies of the

the Sino-British Joint Declaration and additional copies of the draft ASA direct.

It is customary in air services for the more sensitive and variable issues of capacity and frequency of services and of restrictions on the exercise of traffic rights to be set out in a Confidential Memorandum of Understanding (CMU). It would be the