£13 million.
Governments of Singapore and Malaysia. The value of such
facilities transferred in the last financial year was nearly
These include the Commonwealth Brigade base at
Terendak in Malaysia and parts of the Royal Air Force base at
Seletar in Singapore.
Anglo-Malaysian Defence Agreement (AMDA)
4.
A new understanding about AKDA is needed to reflect changed
circumstances after 1971. This is fully understood by our
Commonw:alth partners. (ANDA at present obliges us to come to
we have made it clear that we Malaysia's defence if attacked;
shall not be able to retain automatic commitments of this kind
after 1971.) The Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary said in the Commons in December that we hoped to have the agreement renegotiated
in the lifetime of this Parliament but that there were of course
other parties involved as well as ourselves. The Secretary of Defence said in a press conference on 10 April that he hoped formal discussions could begin later this year so that Ministers
It is might ratify the new Agreement at a meeting early in 1971. too soon to predict what lines a new Agreement might take but we would hope it would provide a new political basis for defence cooperation with which Australia and New Zealand would wish to be
associated.
"ive Power Talks
5. The question of future meetings at either official or Ministerial level is a matter for all the Commonwealth Governments
concerned and no dates have yet boen fixed.
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