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SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE
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Mr Burns:
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In my minutes of 18 June and 4 July about HMS Endurance and the Hong Kong Patrol Craft I said that I wished to consider these issues alongside other out of area responsibilities, especially the defence of our Dependent Territories as a whole.
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Our deployments for the most part provide security in its broader sense for our remaining Dependent Territories. The need is virtually untouched by the change in East/West relations and the diminished threat in Europe
as you noted in your press conference on
9 July.
There is no defence or foreign policy reason, as far as I am aware, for making any significant change out of area in the Options for Change review.
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I am particularly concerned therefore about your proposals to make changes in how we discharge our two most important commitments: the South Atlantic and Hong Kong.
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In the case of the South Atlantic, HMS Endurance has an obvious political and defence symbolism. It is seen by the Argentines, Falkland Islanders and other countries as the embodiment of HMG's commitment to all our
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