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Mr Livesey (HKGD) WH305
PQ:
1.
Livesey
CONSTITUTIONAL PROGRESS OF DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
Your minute of 25 March refers.
2.
I would like to suggest that para 2 of the draft background note might include a sentence to the effect that the views of the Government of the territory are given due weight when considering constitutional advance though it is not of course possible, in the absence of any decision to proceed to independence at an early date, to accede to demands which would erode HMG's ability to discharge its responsibilities.
4.4. Wallan
29 March 1983
W W Wallace
West Indian and Atlantic Department 233 7368 WH424D
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