TNAG-2850-FCO40-4103-Air-services-agreement-between-Hong-Kong-and-the-US-1993 — Page 8

Annex L

UK draft of a UK/US Exchange of Notes

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 United States of America

concerning Air Services, done at Bermuda on 23 July: 1977; and to

* Hate of today adaka propose that:

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Hong Kong shall cease to be regarded as territory of

the "United Kingdom for the purposes of the said

Agreement, except, until 30 June 1997, for the

purposes of Article 2(4) thereof;

(ii) in Annex 1 to the said Agreement, UK Route 6, UK Route

13, US Route 3 and US Route 8, as well as paragraph 8

.

of Section 5, shall be deleted, and Hong Kong shall be

deleted from column (c) in US-Route 2

If the foregoing proposal is acceptable to the Government of the

United States of America, I have the honour to suggest that the

present Note and Your Excellency's reply to that effect shall

constitute an agreement between the two Governments which shall

enter into force on the date on which an Air Services Agreement

between the Government of the United States of America and the

Government of Hong Kong enters into force.

I avail etc.

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REPLY

I have the honour to acknowledge your Note of today's date which

reads as: follows:

"[Text of UK Note]"

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In reply, I have the honour to inform you that the foregoing

proposal is acceptable to the Government of the United States of

America who therefore agree that your Note together with this

reply shall constitute an agreement between the two Governments

which shall enter into force on the date on which an Air Services

Agreement between the Government of the United States of America

and the Government of Hong Kong enters into force.

I shall avail etc.

jc.c73

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7 September 1993

انچه

Foreign & Commonwealth

Office

London SW1A 2AH

071 270 3075

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Mr Rod Balme

(IAD)

Department of Transport

2 Marsham Street

London SW1

Dear Rod,

181/21

RECET

3 SEP 1993

GISTRY ...ion Taken

HONG KONG/US AIR SERVICES TALKS

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1. One point which occurred to me, when I read your letter of 3 September to Mr Wilson Fung, concerned the treatment under our existing arrangements with the Americans of any capacity operated by a US designated carrier on the RTW route. Since Annex 2 to Bermuda 2 applies to US Route 2, ie the RTW route, and since the capacity arrangements in Annex 2 are defined in terms of frequencies on a gateway route segment, the result is that I imagine in practice we do not mind very much if capacity is mounted on the RTW route; indeed, on the contrary, since any such capacity would reduce the amount of capacity which could be operated end to end between gateway route segments, our airlines might even prefer that the capacity were operated in that way.

I am copying this letter to John Hall in AMD and Rod Bunten in HKD here.

2.

asatalks.hk

Yours ever,

Chiris

CA Whomersley Legal Counsellor