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as Chief Secretary, Falklands) for about 3 years.
Approximately
2 officers, according to requirements, should be similarly selected in each successive year.
Short-term training requirements should be made by brief attachments of between one and three months to suitable
territories.
Governors.
These should be identified in consultation with
Existing posts suitable as preparatory slots in certain FCO departments should be identified through routine inspections Officers employed on short-term 'emergency' assignments in Dependent Territories should be considered by POD and HKGD as possible future candidates for longer term Dependent Territories work.
In 1982, depending on the economic constraints at the time, consideration should be given to the appointment of a senior ex-Governor to act as a special Adviser.
Hong Kong and General Department Foreign and Commonwealth Office
June 1981
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