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SECRET

DEFENCE REVIEW: NON-NATO COMMITMENTS

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CONSULTATIONS/NOTIFICATIONS

ANNEX B

NOTE: The suggested timing below is inevitably only approximate at this stage - precise timing will depend partly on local political considerations and in some cases on Ministers' movements. In general we should start consultations at the same time as the formal presentations to NATO on NATO aspects, ie in the week beginning 2 December.

COMMITMENT

TIMING

PLACE

LEVEL

HONG KONG

May, 1975

Hong Kong

1. Governor; then 2. Officials; then 3. Minister, if needed

FIVE POWER

DEFENCE ARRANGEMENTS

BRUNEI

First 3 weeks of December

Capitals, starting with Wellington

Minister of State

December

London or Brunei

FCO Minister

SECRET

COMMENT

The Governor has

recommended that consult- ations should not begin until the Hong Kong budget for 1975 has been completed. New financial arrangements will not in any case come into effect until the present financial agreement expires in March, 1976.

If an FCO Minister were to conduct the FPDA consult- ations he might go on to Brunei. Alternatively the Sultan might be invited, or invite himself, to London.