08 .8/93
09:15
202 898 4224
(By fax)
COMMERCIAL WASH
002/002
Mr R S Balme
IAD
Department of Transport
2 Marsham Street LONDON SW1P 3EB
13 August 1993
Dear Rod
UK/US/HONG KONG TALKS
1.
British Embassy
CC: Mr Hall (AMD) Washington
Mr Bunten (HKD)
3100 Massachusetts Ave N.W.
CAW Washington D.C. 20008-5600
Telex: RCA 211427 or 216760-WUI 64224
3. Facsimile: (202) 898-4255
Telephone: (202)
୮
181/21
23/8/97 500
Г
193
į.
Your letter of 6 August and Martin Glass's of 9 August
refer.
2.
I have confirmed with Paul Gretch (Transportation) and Tom Martin (State) that the above talks will take place in Washington from 21 September through (as the Americans say) 24 September, with the possibility of going into the weekend if an agreement was imminent.
3.
I also handed over to Gretch the list of outstanding issues on the ASA text, which Martin had attached to his letter of 6 August, Judith Ritchie having confirmed with me on 10 August that IAD's cross-checking verified its validity. Mary Street, to whom Gretch naturally gave the list, has since raised with me certain problems about relating the reference numbers and letters on the list with the latest ASA text that she seemed to have. Through the good offices of Judith Ritchie and Charlie Sunderland we are trying to see that everyone has, and can locate, the appropriate base text. I think we should be able to do so.
4.
Mary Street took the opportunity of her telephone call to me to remind me that while the Americans were looking for something fairly modest (in their terms) on cargo fifth freedoms, this needed to be useable - a definition which in Street's view did not apply to a proposal in respect of Thailand, where the US had no operational ASA.
Your Roy
RJ Griffins
Counsellor (Transport & Environment)
cc: Mr M Glass, HONG KONG
Mr C Whomersley, Legal Advisers/FCO Ms J Ritchie, IAD/DOT
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.