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As I see it, all that is needed is an Annex containing a country by country survey of each remaining dependent territory, analysing the prospects for independence and placing each country in one of three categories (those for which independence is clearly a possibility, those for which it clearly is not, and those where it is impossible to say at this stage). The Annex would also lay down our specific policy towards each territory for the next few years in the context of the general policy. Each individual country survey need tot be more than a couple of paragraphs at the very most.

10. One point that is glaringly clear from all this is that the general policy laid down above is inapplicable to Hong Kong. Rather than tie ourselves in knots trying to explain this away, I suggest that we should state plainly at the beginning that Hong Kong is excluded from the scope of the paper because it is so utterly different from all the other dependent territories.

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