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Lewis (G&GD)
Dep
TRANSFER OF GIBRALTAR INTERNAL SECTION FROM GIBRALTAR GENERAL DEPARTMENT TO SOUTHERN EUROPEAN DEPARTME ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS
PROBLEM
Winchester (SFD)
In Morgan(Home
Inspector)
Mr Kirkness ODM
Mr Stewart, (HRD
Following his inspection of the Joint Dep
Southern European Department, the Home Inspect
recommended that:
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(a) responsibility for both the intera
(c)
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external affairs of Gibraltar
brought together in Southern Euro
ropean
Department;
the remaining sections of G&CD
Hong Kong Department
Gibraltar and General Departmer
then be disbanded
Although involving a purely internal adm
re-organ isation, these recommendations have
snags both the United Kingdom and in Gibraltai
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minute is concerned only with the administra
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gumen
entrate
for re-organisation. If they are accepted
submission to Ministers on the political implicati
will be made by SED along the lines of the attached
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which they have prepared with G&GD
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Administratively, it is convenient to hand.
of the Gibraltar problem within one Department
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