TNAG-0429-FCO40-494-Programme-Analysis-and-Review-(PAR)-Future-of-Dependent-Terr-1974 — Page 126

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PAR COUNTRY POLICY PAPERS

1. Thank you for your letter of 22 January to which you attached a number of Country Policy Papers arising out of the PAR study on the future of the dependent territories.

2. As you know the PAR study as a whole has not yet been taken by the DOPC. The first occasion on which the Secretary of State for Defence will be acquainted with the detailed recommendations of the study will be when we brief him for the DOPC discussion of it. For this reason I must make it clear that I am not in a position, particularly by tomorrow, to offer any overall MOD clearance of the papers though having been fairly deeply involved with MOD's input to the study I can offer you, for what they are worth, my own views on how the Country Policy Papers square with MOD interests as reflected in the PAR study as a whole.

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Cayman Islands. I have never been clear as to whether the Western Samoa model embraces any kind of defence guarantee or consultative commitment. it does then we would wish to see any such arrangement specifically excluded from any proposals for the Cayman Islands.

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Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Paragraph 10.10b of the main PAR Paper made reference to the possibility of HMG retaining a permanent Pacific foothold in either Pitcairn or GEIC. Should not the Country Policy Paper on the Gilbert and Ellice Islands make more of this? or have the further studies foreshadowed in the main paper now undermined the case for it?

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