AIR SAFETY TALKS

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27010, 9 April 1953, Page 9

AIR SAFETY TALKS

Meeting Called By Soviet (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) BERLIN, April 8. Representatives of Britain, the United States,'France and the Soviet Union today ended an all-night meeting on air safety problems at the Karlshofst, the Soviet headquarters in Berlin. It was the first Four-Power meeting of any kind held in Berlin since July, 1951. The meeting opened at 8 p.m. last night and lasted nearly eight hours. The Four-Power communique said that the Soviet representative submitted a series of proposals concerning flights in the air corridors between Berlin and West Germany, and the prevention of undesirable air incidents. Allied officials said that the talks were held in a frank and factual atmosphere. The Russians were in the chair. The Four-Power talks were held at the invitation of General Vassily I. Chuikov, head of the Soviet Control Commission, after the shooting down by a Soviet fighter of a British Lincoln bomber over the East-West German border on March 12. The communique said that the talks on air safety problems over Germany would be continued at another meeting. The exact date and time of the next meeting would be fixed by mutual agreement. The delegations were headed by Air Vice Marshal J. H. Edwardes Jones. (Britain), General Edmond Jouhaud (France), Major-General Robert F. Tate (United States) and LieutenantGeneral I. D. Podgorny (Soviet).