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ESB CR 30/936/89(92) XI
John Marshall Esq
Second Secretary (Economic) British Embassy
Tokyo
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3 May 1993
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Dear John
Hong Kong/Japan Air Services
Thank
you
for
your
letter of
-0
30
April.
TWO Consulate-General officials are due to call on me on 6 May no doubt they will deliver the news then about the
and
next round of talks.
You may be interested to know that our Economic and Trade office has been given a slightly different reason by the
They Ministry of Transport for the postponement. were told that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is now in charge Of the ASA talks and that it requires considerable lead-time for preparation. However the message remains the same: no talks before September at the earliest. It will
to find out which version be interesting
of events is preferred by the Consulate-General, given their previous enthusiasm for an early resumption.
be
Under the circumstances, it would probably counter-productive for us to continue to press the Japanese for earlier dates. The postponement until September is
frustrating, nevertheless, because:
At
(a) the two sides have already agreed at the November
1992 talks to meet in the first half of 1993; and
(b)
after five years of talking about it we have yet to start in earnest on what looks set to be a complicated and protracted negotiation of the ASA text, and one that will take two or three further rounds of talks at the very least.
this rate, Kong/Japan ASA signature some ratification. comfort.
we
be
conclude
а
will
to unable
Hong text until well into 1994, followed by unspecified time later and then finally by That is coming rather too close to 1997 for
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