CONFIDENTIAL
Mr Hardi
Ps/mrblaker
MP'S LETTER: MR ANTHONY BUCK QC MP
HKG 025/1
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 31
12 JAN 1981
DOK OFFICER
RADEX
#ZGISTRY
PA
Action Take
NO ERU ER 14/1
(62)
A NR.1.
I attach a draft reply to Mr Buck's letter of 8 December
forwarding a letter from his constituent, Mr D B Evans.
MCD,
SED and WIAD agree.
2.
The subject of integration was most recently discussed
at a seminar in the Institute of Development Studies, University
B N. of Sussex, in 1979; the report is attached. The reply spells
out some of the difficulties involved in integration. Although
in the long run it may be the only viable alternative for small,
isolated communities such as St Helena and the Falkland Islands,
to offer it to them might encourage other territories which could
sustain independence to seek it also. More importantly, it would
encourage similar ideas in Hong Kong and Gibraltar where, because
of the political circumstances, such a move would be out of the
question.
15 December 1980
сс
MCD SED WIAD
Дир
R D Clift
Hong Kong and General Department
CONFIDENTIAL
18 Dec.
PARB
22/12