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FUTURE OF THE DEPENDENT TERRITORTES

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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No. 51 27 JUN 17

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As a postscript to recent correspondence, you may be interested

a minute I wrote shortly before the Ambassador discussed the subject with Mr Stanley. I also enclose a copy of an exchange of letters in May 1973 between the Prime Minister of New Zealand and the Premier of the Cook Islands concerning the nature of the special relationship between the Cook Islands and New Zealand.

2. Peter Adams of the New Zealand Mission sent this to me after we had discussed the limitations of the relationship of association between the administering power and a former colony. New Zealand has found it more satisfactory than we. He and I agreed that the main reason was perhaps that they have not had to deal with the Caribbean. They also have a hold over the Cooks by virtue of the common citizen- ship provision. They have had their difficulties with the Cooks however and there has been criticism in the New Zealand Parliament of some of the features of Albert Henry's regime. The letter from Mr Kirk amounts to notice that if the Cooks betray New Zealand's "expectation that the Cook Islands will uphold in their laws and policies a standard of values generally acceptable to New Zealanders", New Zealand will consider withdrawing from the relationship.

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I pass this on as it has a bearing on our own reluctance to contemplate

association as a final solution. Could it be that there will be some territories, perhaps even the Caymans, where the risks of association would be much less than was the case for the Leewards and Windwards, or would have been the case for Seychelles and Bermuda? With a small, tolerant and homogenous population, with traditions and standards not far removed from our own, the Caymans for example might be susceptible to the kind of sanction which the New Zealanders reckon they have with the Cooks even without, common citizenship.

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