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24/6
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SOUTH ATLANTIC & ANTARCTIC DEPARTMENT
DATE : 14 June 1991
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Mr Beamish
cc: PS/Mr Garel Jones
Sir A Watts
Mr Goulden
Mr Burns
PS/Lord Caithness
PS
PS/PUS
Sir J Coles
Mr Broomfield
Mr Dowse, NPDD
Mr Cox, HKD
Mr Baker, WIAD Special Advisers
Mr Hawkins, News Dept
HMS ENDURANCE
Problem
1.
The Defence Secretary has proposed that an
announcement should be made before 24 June about the withdrawal of HMS ENDURANCE from its work in the South
Atlantic and Antarctic. How should we respond?
Recommendation
A
2.
I recommend that the Secretary of State should reply to Mr King in the terms of the attached draft minute which proposes postponement of the announcement and Ministerial discussion both about the future of HMS
ENDURANCE and the related question of defence obligations towards Dependent Territories. Sir A Watts, Mr Goulden, Hong Kong Department and WIAD concur.
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