TNAG-2841-FCO40-4094-Air-services-agreement-between-Hong-Kong-and-Australia-1993 — Page 17

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HONG KONG TELNO 1026: UK/HONG KONG / AUSTRALIA AIR

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SUMMARY

1. In TUR, Hong Kong asked DOT to initiate the UK/Australia Exchange of Notes to remove Hong Kong from the scope of the UK/Australia ASA. That telno also commented that they expected us to use the original version of the Exchange as envisaged in paragraph 2(b) of David Moss' (DOT) Letter of 17 June 1992 to Buckingham (FTC). This version takes into account the fact that no agreement was reached at the talks in 1992 on new UK/Australia trunk routes and is the approach that we would like to follow. Before doing so we would like to be clear that the FTC are aware which text we shall be sending and why. We would therefore be grateful if informal soundings could be taken with the FTC before we initiate the draft Exchange of Notes.

DETAIL

2. The UK provided the Australian delegation with a draft Exchange of Notes at the talks in May 1992 worded as follows: Quote:

I have the honour to refer to the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia concerning Air Services signed at London on 7 February 1958, as amended, and to propose that the said Agreement shall be further amended as follows:

(i) At the end of Article 1(1)(c) immediately after the words quote that state unquote there shall be inserted the words quote provided that Hong Kong shall not be regarded as territory of the United Kingdom except, until 30 June 1997, for the purposes of Article 2(3).

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