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RECEIVED IN
REGISTRY No.51 2 8 MAY 1969
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Coamonwealth in aceinisters' oeting:
Dependent Territories Renrenentstions
De
re considering which dependent territories should be invited to be rouresented at the next meetin of Finance Ministers and officials, to be held in riugetown, Barbados in the week beginning
2 September this year. Dependent territories' representatives are included as part of the U.K. Delegation. They finance their own representation.
2. According to a decision reachec by all Common- wealth Governments in 1967, the ssociated tetes are invited as of right to all Commonwealth meetings below Head of Government level. It is not therefore for the British Government to issues invitations to them.
3. In 1967 the following territories were invited :
Bahamas Fiji Mauritius
Hong Kong British Honduras Swaziland
Only the Bahamas, St. Vincent and Hong Kong came. St. Vincent and Montserat were invited at the request of Dr. Williams, and as the meeting was in Fort of pain and hud the semblance of a regional one, we had no cause for objection.
4.
Last year, when the meeting was in London, we invited Bahamas, Bermuda, British Honduras, Hong Kong and Fiji. The Bahamas, Fiji and Hong Kong cume, as did r. Price, from British Honduras, though he had other business in London at the same time as the meeting.
5.
This year we have it in mind to ask the territories with whom we have concluded sterling agreements and who are significant holders of sterling, i.e.
Bermuda
Bahamas
Fiji
British Honduras Hong Kong
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