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PRIVATE MEMBER'S MOTION : DEPENDENT TERRITORIES : 15 APRIL 1983
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I am grateful to my right honourable Friend for introducing
his Motion on the Dependent Territories. (This Government bases
the administration of its dependent territories on the provision
of the UN Charter. We are fully committed to the policy followed by successive Governments since 1945 of giving every help and encouragement to those dependent territories which, where independence is feasible, wish to become independent,
whilst not forcing independence on those which do not wish it. Wherever independence is feasible, this Government will continue
to seek to create the conditions which will make it a realistic
and desirable objective. Where local governments have made it clear that they do not wish their territories to become independent, we are content to retain sovereignty for the time being.
It is, of course, the Government of the day and Parliament frather than the UN which are responsible for taking
We decisions on (British dependent territories and although
de cogerate with The UN in discussions & on corritonces, although..
onecasion it has been necessary to dissociate ourselves from
Gene bih views expressed by the UN we remain convinced that our efforts in the UN have led to a wide, understanding of the problems of our remaining territories s. We have no reason to be defensive about the way successive governments have carried out these responsibilities. Indeed, about one third of the Member States of the UN have reached independence as a result of the way in
which we have discharged our obligations. We shall continue, where possible, in the same spirit with our remaining
territories, assisting them in a manner appropriate to their
individual circumstances.
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I note my right honourable Friend's comments about Belize.
Belize had internal self-government since 1964, but full independence was delayed by Guatemala's long-standing claim. The People's United Party has won all the general elections held
It had stood from the first on an independence
since 1964.
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