Wikileaks - MCCCXXXVII
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STATE FOR EAP/J, TRA/OTP FOR K. GUSTAVSON STATE PASS FAA FOR A. VANEK AND G. KINGSBURY
E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: EAIR, ETRD, KTIA, PREL, JA SUBJECT: U.S. AND JAPAN SIGN BILATERAL AVIATION SAFETY AGREEMENT (BASA)
REF: STATE 41022
1. Charge and Japan's Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone signed the Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement (BASA) Executive Agreement April 27 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo, as per instructions contained in ref. During the same signing ceremony, FAA Acting Assistant Administrator Dorothy Reimold and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB) Engineering Bureau Director-General Toru Miyashita signed the BASA associated Implementation Procedures for Airworthiness (IPA).
2. Post has retained copies of the signed documents and forwarded the originals to EAP/J. ZUMWALT
