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MINUTES OF THE
DEPENDENT TERRITORIES SENIOR APPOINTMENTS BOARD
1. A meeting of the Dependent Territories Senior Appointments
Board was held on 4 June 1979 at 11 am in the Permanent Under- Secretary's room at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
2. Those present were:
3.
Chairman:
Members:
Sir Michael Palliser
Mr H AH Cortazzi
Sir Edward Youde
Mr D J Kirkness (ODA)
Mr R J Stratton
Mr M O'D B Alexander
Mr RJT McLaren
Mr A J Beamish
Sir David Trench (ex HMOCS)
The Chairman informed the Board that he had given careful thought to the way in which senior appointments in the Dependent Territories were handled in the Office and had reached the con-
clusion that there was no longer any need for special machinery. He had accordingly recommended to the Secretary of State that the Board should be wound up after its present meeting and that Dependent Territories appointments should in future be dealt with by the appropriate Diplomatic Service Boards. The Chairman added that this was no reflection on the usefulness of the Board in the past; it was simply that times had changed. He was particularly grateful to Sir D Trench for his advice over the years.
4. The Board considered the six briefs presented with the Agenda:
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