TNAG-0597-FCO40-744-Future-of-Dependent-Territories-territorial-studies-1977 — Page 25

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Solomon Islands Tuvalu

Gilbert Islands

New Hebrides

7 July 1978

Scheduled for October 1978

During 1979 During 1980

You have recently given the DEA an up-to-date briefing on developments in Belize (PC telegrams nos 513 to Ottawa and 246 to Caracas refer). The remaining territories are at widely varying stages of constitutional advance.

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