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ANNEX B TO

BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR DEFENCE STUDIES

NDC ASSUMPTIONS ON THE UNITED KINGDOM'S DEFENCE COMMITMENTS TOWARDS HER REMAINING DEPENDENCIES OVER THE NEXT DECADE

Serial No

Geographical Area

Dependent Territory

(a)

1

(b)

Caribbean

(c)

Likely Termination

of Commitment (d)

Belize

By late 1970s

2

零售

Bermuda

? Late 1970s

E

3

"

British Virgin Islands

"I

4

"

56

7

Cayman Islands

Montserrat

Turks and Caicos Islands

Antigua, St Kitts

Nevis Anguilla,

-

Dominica,

St Lucia and St Vincent

Dependencies

Falkland Islands and Dependencies

"

Not before 1980

Unknown

South Atlantic

St Helena and

9

Antarctica

10

参量

British Antarctic Territory

11

Mediterranean

Gibraltar

12

Cyprus SBAS

13

Indian Ocean

零零

British Indian Ocean Territory

South East Asia Brunei

#1

Hong Kong

British Solomon Islands

14

15

16

Pacific

17

#1

Gilbert Island

18

19

20

21

"

No civilian population;| available for the

defence purposes of the US and UK until at least 2016

Unknown

Not before 1999

Mid 1978

Tuvalu (formerly Ellis Island)

Pitcairn Island

New Hebrides

(Anglo-French)

Central and Southern

Line Islands

B-1

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Late 1970s

Future obscure

UK forces cannot be used without French consent and vice-versa Uninhabited

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