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MINUTES OF THE DEPENDENT TERRITORIES SENIOR APPOINTMENTS BOARD
1.
A meeting of the Dependent Territories Senior Appoint-
ments 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:-
Chairman:
Members:
Sir Michael Palliser
Mr HAH 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)
3. The Chairman informed the Board that he had given carefu
thought to the way in which senior appointments in the
Dependent Territories were handled in the Office and had
reached the conclusion 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 appoint-
ments 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:
was simply that times had changed. He was particularly
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