CONFIDENTIAL UK EYES A
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through a period of military and political flux examples being
the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa and while it is too
early to make changes to the number of guaranteed places offered
to these regions, the need for flexibility has been recognised
by the introduction of floating places to be allocated in the
light of circumstances at the time. The main losers in terms of
guaranteed places have been NATO Europe, North America, South
Asia and Australasia. A comparison of the new regional allocation
with that used for the 1992 course is shown below:
Region
NATO Europe
Non-NATO Europe
North America
1992 allocation
11
2
6
Australasia
4
Middle East
4
Africa
2
Far East
4
S America/Caribbean
1
South Asia
4
Floating places
Total
0
38
1993 allocation
10
3
5 3
4 24
2 2 3
38
5. This distribution of places will remain subject to review and
may need to be adjusted in future years. But I believe it represents a sensible formula with which to guide the allocation
of places for the 1993 course.
PROPOSALS FOR THE 1993 COURSE:INITIAL INVITATIONS
6. The proposed allocations of first wave places to each region
and the rationale behind them
them is set out in the following
paragraphs and summarised in tabular form in Part 1 of Annex A.
Supporting details about actual attendance and invitations
refused over the last three years are at Annexes B and C respectively.
CONFIDENTIAL UK EYES A