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Mr Paterson
N & T Dept
CONFIDENTIAL
NATIONALITY LAW REVIEW
Reference.
GalPA
HKK 340
RECEIVED
DESK OFFK
INDEX
no 1 219.6
1. Your circular minute of 1 June.
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2. I was surprised to see from the copies of papers which you sent over (under a compliments slip dated 4 June) that there had only been one half-hearted protest, and non-governmental at that, from the territories administered by WIAD when the Green Paper on Nationality Law was circulated last year. Presumably territories will have a further opportunity to comment if the proposals in the Green Paper, or any other set of proposals, were to be upgraded to the status of a White Paper. In the meantime, however, I think it would be reasonable to include a sentence in any current submission on the subject to the effect that WIAD's territories might protest if the proposed changes in Nationality Law took effect, but not violently.
3. We discussed on the telephone this morning the estimated dates for independence for our Associated States and dependent territories, which for the sake of convenience I set out below:
Associated States
St Vincent
St Kitts-Nevis
Autumn 1979
late 1979
(Anguilla to revert to a formal dependent territory: see below)
Antigua
Dependent Territories
Cayman Islands
St Helena
Ascension Island
Tristan da Cunha
Anguilla (see above)
Bermuda
Turks & Caicos Islands
British Virgin Islands
Montserrat
CODE 18-77
15 June 1979
cc: Mr Quantrill, HK & GD
first half of 1980
Likely to remain dependent for at least
5 years, and probably longer in some
cases.
Likely to go independent within the next 3-5 years.
CONFIDENTIAL
Fuolmes
B T Holmes
West Indian & Atlantic Dept