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INFO KUALA LUMPUR SINGAPORE JAKARTA BANGKOK MANTLA WASHINGTON UKMIS NEW YORK CANBERRA WELLINGTON HONG KONG (FOR GOVERNOR), MCDUX (MISS J BENNETT DS11).
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FCO TELNO 151: ANGLO-BRUNEI TREATY DOCUMENTS.
1. AFTER SIGNATURE IN DECEMBER WE SHALL NEED TO LAY BEFORE PARLIA- MENT AND TO PUBLISH AS A COMMAND PAPER THE TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP AND COOPERATION AND THE EXCHANGE OF NOTES CONCERNING TERMINATION OF THE SPECIAL TREATY RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UK AND BRUNEI.
2. WE ALSO WISH TO LAY BEFORE PARLIAMENT AND PUBLISH THE EXCHANGES
OF NOTES CONCERNING:
(A) THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE TO THE ARMED FORCES OF BRUNEI: (B) JUDICIAL MATTERS: AND
(C) NATIONALITY.
3. WE PROPOSE THAT THE EXCHANGE OF NOTES ON THE CONTINUING STATION-
ING OF GURKHAS IN BRUNEI SHOULD NOT (REPEAT NOT) BE PUBLISHED, FOLLOW
-ING THE 1971 PRECEDENT. WE WOULD ALSO NOT PROPOSE THAT, THE EXCHANGE
CONCERNING BRITISH ASSISTANCE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A BRUNEI DIPLO-
MATIC SERVICE, SHOULD BE PUBLISHED. THIS CONCERNS DETAILED MATTERS
OF ADMINISTRATION, TO WHICH ALLUSION IS IN ANY CASE MADE IN ARTICLE 2(D) OF THE TREATY.
4. GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD SEEK THE AGREEMENT OF THE ISTANA TO THE
FOREGOING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
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