CIVIL AVIATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 103, 3 May 1945, Page 8

CIVIL AVIATION

INTERIM ORGANISATION

N.Z. ACCEPTANCE

Reference was made in a statement today by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr, Nash) to the agreements made at the International Civil Aviation Conference held at Chicago in November and December of last year. Three of these agreements were signed by the leader of the New Zealand delegation (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan). These were the International Air Services; Transit Agreement makjng provision, for..the grant of certain freedoms ot\ ! air navigation, and the two agreementsl establishing respectively the Interim and the Permanent International Aviation Organisation. The International Air Services Transit Agreement makes provision for the grant of what are popularly known as Freedoms I, the privilege to fly across the territory of another contracting State without landing, and, 11, the privilege to land on the territory of that State for non-traffic purposes. "The Interim Civil Aviation Organisation will function until a Permanent Organisation is established or another conference on international civil aviation shall have agreed upon other arrangements." said Mr. Nash. "This interim period shall not, however, exceed three years from the coming into force of the agreement establishing the Permanent Organisation." Mr. Nash stated that the signature by Mr. Sullivan of the International j Air Services Agreement and the agreement establishing the Interim Civil Aviation Organisation would be regarded as constituting acceptances of these instruments by the New Zealand Government and obligations binding upon it. In accordance with the procedure laid down at the conference, -notice of the decision had been given to the United States of America.

Consideration would be given later to the question of ratification he? New Zealand of the agreement establishing the Permanent International Aviation Organisation^ "