TNAG-2851-FCO40-4104-Air-services-agreement-between-Hong-Kong-and-Japan-1993 — Page 19

JUL-1993 10:19

752 8GB 4079

7.02

KESTRICTED

GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD HCNC калG

布政司署 香港下亞厘畢道

ESBCR 30/936/89 (92) XI

*** Our Ref.:

來函楷號 Your Ref.:

By fax and by mail

Ms Rosalind Marsden

Political Counsellor

British Embassy Tokyo

Dear Rosalind

سلم

29 July 1993

Hong Kong/Japan ASA Separation

Thank you for your letter of 2/ for your recent efforts on our t grateful

If w and the MOT.

The latter's idiosyncratic app: separation is a constant source of puzzlement.

MEA

to

is

AS negotiation of a Hong Kong/Japan ASA essentially a technical exercise designed

preserve existing traffic rights and so to ensure continuity in air services before and after 1997, I find it difficult to imagine that their airlines' economic interests would be affected by it in

any way except in a positive general

sense.

Doi

to

appears to be talking instead about possible modifications

the existing UK/Japan regional route arrangements to take account of market conditions. AS know, such modifications take place on a regular t They can naturally be contemplated in the course separation, but they are not integral parts exercise: and before the ASA has entered into need may well arise in the future for them to b

further.

-/In any case