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This information may be given în confidence co your Chief Minister/Premier/Executive Council on
3 December, or at your discretion on 2 December.
proposals in the Defence Review are still subject
It is
to consultation with our allies and no public announcement can be expected until February or March. important that Ministers and Councillors maintain confidentiality of these proposals until they are made public.
4. In making such communication to your Ministers/ Executive Council, as you see fit, you should lay stress on the statement which will be included in the Parliamentary Statement on 3 December, that it is the fim intention of HMG to contime to maintain their existing obligations towards the external defence. of all our remaining Dependent Territories.
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To Belmopan and Port Stanley only: see my MIFT. 7
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