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HKGD WIAD
CCD
UND
Mr Posnett
Director of Research
Mr Crowe, Planning Staff
Mr Ireton, ODM
PACE OF DECOLONISATION
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CONFIDENTIAL
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HKG 025/2
KRY NO. 51
14 AUG 1978
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Mr Cortazzi endorsed the suggestion in my minute of 15 May (copy attached) that we should hold a meeting in an attempt to coordinate the different activities and proposals in several departments of the Office about various aspects of the future of the dependent territories. I am afraid the timing of this meeting has rather slipped, but I now invite you, or your representative, to attend one in my room at 3.30 pm on Thursday, 31 August. I would emphasise that the meeting will be procedural, not substantial: le to consider how these various activities may best be coordinated and, more specifically, who (?HKGD) should prepare a revised, shortened and yet more comprehensive version of Mr Callaghan's circular despatch of 1975 and its enclosure.
2.
The activities in this field that have come to my notice (the list may not be exhaustive) are:
(1)
(ii)
(iii)
mini-states and the UN (UND paper and UND-sponsored seminar);
the remaining UK territories and the Committee of 24 (UND/UKMIS NỸ exercise);
mini-states in the Commonwealth (CCD exercise);
(iv) mini-states and the future of Britain's remaining
dependencies (proposed Planning Staff seminar);
(v)
the future of small dependencies (Research Department paper);
(vi) review of circular despatch of 13 June 1975 "The Future
of the Dependent Territories" (WIAD exercise);
also relevant are:
(vii) dependent territories social indicators (ODM exercise);
(viii)
Parliamentary implications indications of Conservative attitudes (inter alia Mr Cortazzi's account of his meeting with Mr Shelton, MP on 14 April 1978)
R.J. Shattra
RJ Stratton
9 August 1978
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