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CONFIDENTIAL
DRAFT SUBMISSION
Type 1 +
To:-
FROM
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
UK POLICY TOWARDS THE COMMITTEE OF 24
PROBLEM
1. To decide HMG's relationship with the Special Committee on the situation with regard to the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence of Colonial Countries and Peoples (Committee of 24). The Mission in New York have
asked that a decision should be reached as soon as
is convenient.
BACKGROUND
2. The attached annex gives a description of the mandate and membership of the Committee of 24 and a brief account of the UK's previous relations with it. It also considers in the case of each UK dependent territory whether there are any factors which might cause difficulties with a Committee of 24 visiting mission.
3.
In his letter to Mr Campbell of 16 April,
Mr Richard gives his recommendations on the course
our future relations should take.
This submission
comments on the recommendations in that letter.
ARGUMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
(3002) Dmd, 145244 400M 10/73 L.Ltd. 839/1
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Should we co-operate at all? letter
(Paragraphs 5-9 of
4.
Mr Richard gives 3 arguments in favour of
/greater
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