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with the remaining dependencies and the continuing
North/South dialogue into that framework.
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unprofitable
3. There are other reasons why I would suggest that you
place your second and third ideas in this wider context.
The Office and the Institute of Development Studies held
a seminar on the dependent territories as recently as
September 1979 and it would seem wrong, for the seminar
you are planning to spend too much time running over ·
the same ground. While the North/South dialogue is
immensely important today, not least in the Commonwealth
context, the association does take a keen interest in
other issues and has the flexibility of approach that will
enable it, in coming years, to become involved in still more.
What these issues are and will be is a fruitful area for
discussion.
4.
All this leads me to suggest the following agenda:
A) The future of the Commonwealth
(i) membership (including a glance at the
remaining dependencies and perhaps a longer
look at the present and final patterns of
membership);
(ii) present and future areas of interest (including
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North South, Africa, Island States); and
(iii) political and functional cooperation (what the
official and unofficial Commonwealth already
does and might usefully do in the future).
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/B)