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 61 STAT.] SIAM-AIR TRANSPORT SERVICES-FEB. 26, 1947 ANNEX TO AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF SIAM RELATING TO AIR SERVICES BETWEEN THEIR RESPECTIVE TERRITORIES. A. Airlines of the United States, authorized under the present agree- ment, are accorded rights of transit and non-traffic stop in the territory of Siam, as well as the right to pick up and discharge international traffic in passengers, cargo, and mail at Bangkok, on the following route via intermediate points; in both directions: 1. The United States over a Pacific route to Bangkok and beyond. B. Airlines of Siam, authorized under the present agreement, are accorded rights of transit and non-traffic stop in the territory of the United States of America, as well as the right to pick up and discharge international traffic in passengers, cargo, and mail at Los Angeles and Honolulu on the following route via intermediate points; in both directions: 1. Siam to Los Angeles over reasonably direct route. C. In the establishment and operation of air services covered by this Agreement and its Annex, the following principles shall apply: 1. The two contracting parties desire to foster and encourage the widest possible distribution of the benefits of air travel for the gen- eral good of mankind at the cheapest rates consistent with sound economic principles; and to stimulate international air travel as a means of promoting friendly understanding and good will among peoples and insuring as well the many indirect benefits of this new form of transportation to the common welfare of both countries. 2. There shall be a fair and equal opportunity for the airlines of the two contracting parties to operate on their respective routes. 3. It is the understanding of both contracting parties that services provided by a designated air carrier under the Agreement and its Annex shall retain as their primary objective the provision of ca- pacity adequate to the traffic demands between the country of which such air carrier is a national and the country of ultimate destination of the traffic. The right to embark and disembark on such services international traffic destined for and coming from third countries at a point or points on the routes specified in the Annex to the Agree- ment shall be applied in accordance with the general principles of orderly development to which both contracting parties subscribe and shall be subject to the general principle that capacity should be related: (a) to traffic requirements between the country of origin and the countries of destination; (b) to the requirements of through airline operation, and (c) to the traffic requirements of the area through which the air- line passes after taking into consideration local and regional services. U. S. rights of trans- it and stop in Siam. Siamese rights of transit and stop in U.S. Encouragement of air travel. Fqlnl oppo)rtunlity. Cala'it y. Right to nlheark, etc. 2793

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