infomation is that the Clains Commission which will be set up by Ir Denktash may start work: early in the new year, and will be headed

by a fuckish Cypriot high court judge. We shall continue to press the

Turkish authorities, or if he is going to assume responsibility for it,

I Denktesh.

4. We are glad to hear that. We all get letters from constituents

ho had houses thore. It seems to me that if you braved the invasion

and stayed in your house things were all night; it was when a house was left empty that the trouble started. It may even be a holiday hone

that suffered. A. This was my impression when I visited Cyprus in lay. When the British had stayed put, for the most part the Turks had respected the Inglishman's castle, but if it were abandoned then looting did tele

place.

Q. We did see some of the quarters for United Kingdon staff occupied

in Nicosia, and the ones we saw were, on the whole, fairly satisfactory.

Are you satisfied with the quarters you have for your United Kingdon stoff in Micosia? L. Broadly specking, yes. (ir Thon) They are satisfactory.

We would have wished to fit cone cir conditioning into some of then. Cases

are being pursued with the reasury but so far without success. The quarters

therselves are up to standard beoning in mind that a fair enount of shuffling took place, and it was not always possible to replace premises with like.

We lost a mumber of properties.

MR ROPER: Is there a problem there on accommodation, that the FCO staff mne treated differently from servicemen as fer es ein conditioning is

concerned, in particular? (In Honlew) This is not our understanding.

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Our understanding is that our conditions are, to sone extent, tied to servicemen's conditions and were it not for that tie the I figures are such that cir conditioning would be authorised. Chat is the Fenpersture

and Humidity Index.

I understood some of the serviceren do have air conditioning and your

people do not.

in hom) I think this may have arisen owing to the

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