TNAG-0694-FCO40-844-Inspection-of-Hong-Kong-Department-1977 — Page 145

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Lewis (G&GD)

Dep

TRANSFER OF GIBRALTAR INTERNAL SECTION FROM GIBRALTAR GENERAL DEPARTMENT TO SOUTHERN EUROPEAN DEPARTME ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS

PROBLEM

Winchester (SFD)

In Morgan(Home

Inspector)

Mr Kirkness ODM

Mr Stewart, (HRD

Following his inspection of the Joint Dep

Southern European Department, the Home Inspect

recommended that:

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(a) responsibility for both the intera

(c)

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external affairs of Gibraltar

brought together in Southern Euro

ropean

Department;

the remaining sections of G&CD

Hong Kong Department

Gibraltar and General Departmer

then be disbanded

Although involving a purely internal adm

re-organ isation, these recommendations have

snags both the United Kingdom and in Gibraltai

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minute is concerned only with the administra

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for re-organisation. If they are accepted

submission to Ministers on the political implicati

will be made by SED along the lines of the attached

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which they have prepared with G&GD

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Administratively, it is convenient to hand.

of the Gibraltar problem within one Department

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