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outline of our objectives so that we can at an early stage in the talks put in a paper which will describe the arrangements which we would envisage as a substitute for the preseT
constitutional link with the UK. This would include in
principle at least the manner in which a Governor/Chief Executive
would be appointed.
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(GEOFFREY HOWE)
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
23 December 1983
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