Mr B G J Canty OBE Governor
Government House
ANGU ILLA
270 2572
SG1AE F
24 September 1990
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OECD : EXTENSION OF CONVENTION AND INSTRUMENTS
1. On 5 April Richard Tauwhare wrote to you and your colleagues in
other Dependent Territories to ask whether DT authorities saw
advantage in being brought in under the umbrella of the OECD
Convention and Instruments.
2.
Gibraltar and Bermuda decided that it would be in their favour to
be so covered and a declaration was made on 20 July to formally place
on record that the Convention would apply to them (along with the
Channel Islands and the Isle of Man). I enclose a copy of the OECD
Secretariat announcement.
3. We now need, and indeed we have been asked as a matter of urgency
by OECD Legal Services, to clarify to OECD members the status of
those DTS who did not seek to have the Convention and Instruments
extended to them.
Clarification is also necessary to enable UKDel to
to explain the situation to general enquirers who are already
impatiently knocking at their door. As matters stand, Anguilla, Turks
and Caicos Islands, St Helena (including Ascension Island and
Tristan da Cunha) and the Falkland Islands have said that they do not
see benefits in belonging to the OECD at this stage. The British
Virgin Islands and Montserrat
and Montserrat are still weighing up the merits
as I