CODE 18 - 77
:
Mr MixToni Alénuta.
Миртом
Mr Stewart]
[X
•
Kim
Reference...
HKG 025/1
See 20
P.a. nf.
8
DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
1.
TERRITORIAL STUDIES
I believe that you have the Territorial Studies file and if so you may wish to see Mr Burton's minute of 28 April (attached).
2.
Mr Burton asks:-
a)
for copies of completed Territorial Studies;
b)
for authority to inform the Treasury of completed Studies.
3.
As a Joint Department I presume that we should let ODM have copies of completed Territorial Studies, provided of course, that the geographical department which has prepared the Study, agrees. (I believe that no non-Joint Departments are to produce Territorial Studies but if they were I suppose they could object on the grounds of not being join to completed Territorial Studies being handed to ODM.)
My
4.
The reference to the Treasury introduces a new dimension. first thought is that until it has been decided in FCO exactly what action is to be taken regarding accelerated decolonisation for the DTs following the completion of all the Studies we would not wish to let Whitehall (other than ODM) see the Studies piecemeal.
3 May 1977
1.
J. Juster.
J Jasper
Hong Kong and General Department K270
233-4069
We spoke. I agree that we should let the ODM have copies of completed studies prepared by joint FCO/ODM departments, provided, as you say, that the departments themselves concur. If any non-joint department, ie SED in the case of Gibraltar, MCD in the case of Belize (and Dominica?) and S.Am.D in the case of the Falklands, are preparing territorial studies I would see no objection to these being passed to the ODM, again provided that the departments concerned see no objection.
2. I agree too that we should not send the territorial studies to the Treasury on the strength of the passing
/enquiry