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this, though we will wish to make it clear that the timetable will also to some extent depend on other Governments'
commitments.
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The Secretary of State should, however, add that timing of consultations will need to be flexible in order to take
account of any special local factors. For example, the Sultan of Oman will be visiting the UK at the end of October. He will be seeing the Prime Minister, who will need to say something to him about our plans for Oman.
Hong Kong
(paragraph 5(f) of the draft Cabinet paper and paragraph 12(a) of the Steering Brief)
tines any Band Armory amyard would not Tor
15. The Secretary of State should warn his colleagues that The Governor recommended that, formal consultations with Hong Kong's should not start until May, ie after the Defence Review has
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on the 1975-16 fra Ke Make: been announced, so that current discussions about taxatier
Should increases to finance the enlarged social welfare programme, con be got out of the way first.
first. This would not pr
This would not preclude a suitable as Djed Who reference, when the results of the Defence Review are announced, to the fact that there would be consultations with the
Hong Kong Government about the future level of the garrison and about how the cost should be divided in future.
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Governor, he is paint again if the pepeseed Fint way to
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