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(iv)
The Malagasy Republic
The British High Commission has telegraphed details of aid projects and I understand that further details are on their way to you by bag. We would like to continue the small capital aid programme started two years ago with the milk pasteurization plant and I hope that one or more of the proposals may be suitable for inclusion in the 1970/71 programme.
(D) Multilateral
(i) Trucial States Development Fund
There has been correspondence about a grant of a further £200,000 to the Fund. In spite of McKenzie Johnston's letter (MID 203/290/01) of 21 October, we wish to reserve our position.
(ii) U.N.H.C.R.
I asked you in my letter of 27 October to reconsider the possibility of accommodating £30,000 within the aid ceilings for 1969/70 and 1970/71. We are now studying your reply.
(E) Technical Assistance
(i) SCAAP/TANCA
We are, as you know, anxious to step up technical assistance tọ North African countries and we are doubtful whether the additional is enough to cover realistic expectations of worthwhile technical assistance projects.
(ii) Thailand
Lucas of the Treasury will have received originally, and Belcher of the O.D.M. subsequently, a copy of the letter of 13 October from Dickenson (ECGD) to Fell (Board of Trade) about the possible extension of the line of credit to Thailand to cover exports of U.K. agricultural machinery. In suggesting that this correspondence be copied to 0.D.M. we had in mind the possibility that, if the proposal found favour, it could usefully be complimented by technical assistance in the field of training courses on the use of agricultural machinery. South-East Asian Department would like to examine the possibility of offering training courses not only to Thailand but also to other South-East Asian countries able to import agricultural machinery on commercial terms.
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