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HS H Stanley Esq CMG
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Jean du framing
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UNITED KINGDOM MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS
845 THIRD AVENUE
NEW YORK, N.Y. 10022
10 May 1977
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No. 51
1 3 MAY 1977
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FUTURE OF THE DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
1. For some time we have felt that there was scope for a contribution from New York to policy discussions in London on this subject. After some discussion in the autumn of last year with Nick Larmour on our objectives in handling the territories at the UN, which included a useful talk between him and the Chairman of the Committee of 24, we were about to do so but were held up by the General Assembly. It then seemed best to wait for the outcome of the Caribbean Heads of Mission meeting in the New Year and the subsequent Governors' meeting. In the event the delay has been advantageous. We have not seen records or a note of the conclusion of these two meetings, but the issues are clearer since your tour with Patrick Duff. I am thinking particularly of paragraphs 5 and 6 of the General Note on your visit. More recently, we contracted to comment on the wider UN aspects of the forthcoming talks in London with the visiting mission to the Cayman Islands.
2. My general theme in this letter will be to attempt an answer to the following question: How should mutual cooperation between us and the Committee of 24, which has been to our advantage in the last four years, develop in circumstances in which a number of our territories are unlikely to move to independence? Having, I hope,
suggested a policy which accords with the new thinking in London, I will move on to suggest how such a policy might be applied in the particular case of the Cayman Islands, and then to what might be said in London to the Cayman Islands visiting mission.
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