GAN
COMMITMENT
TIMING
PLACE
December
Malé
SECRET
2 -
MAURITIUS
December
London or Port Louis
LEVEL
COMMENT
Minister or
HM Ambassador Colombo
FCO Minister with Ramgoolam
The Maldivian Prime Minister wil be in London from 26 October to 5 November. In order to avoid any repercussions from our inability to say anything to him then about our plans for Gan, it may be necessary for a Minister to visit him in Malé, eg after FPDA consultations.
Ramgoolam is frequently in London. If he is here in December this would be the most convenient and unobtrusive way of consulting him. The consult- ation should if possible be com- pleted before the beginning of aid talks with Mauritius due to take place between January and March 1975.
OMAN
1.
Persia
Decemberˆ
Tehran
HM Ambassador and/or Minister
See also Cyprus/CENTO.
2. Sultan
After final Defence Review announcement
Muscat
HM Ambassador and/or
FCO Minister
The Shah
will expect to be told what plans we have for Cyprus, because of the implications for CENTO.
An FCO Ministerial visit would be timely, quite apart from the Defence Review.
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