TNAG-0832-FCO40-1040-Future-of-the-Dependent-Territories-1979 — Page 46

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on the future of Britain's remaining Dependent Territories

which we are organising at the Institute of Development

Studies next month. There does not however seem to be any reason

to do so: the principal purpose of the seminar will be to explain

official policy, and canvas ideas on the way that policy can be

put into effect in the particular circumstances of individual

It is not intended that the seminar should concern

territories.

itself with the basic policy.

W.E. Quantill

WE Quantrill

29 August 1979

Hong Kong and General Department

CC

WIAD

M&CD

SED

SAMD

SPD

Research Dept

P/S PUS o/r

1.

This draft despatch has been brooded over long and hard by all concerned. I think it is now as good as we can get it. As it relates to basic policy, admittedly now in a very small pond, and as there is at present no DUS for the area principally concerned, I think the PUS should see it before it is submitted

to Ministers.

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With the likely accession of the New Hebrides to independence in the first half of 1980 Mr Ridley is the Minister most involved with the future of our dependencies. I think it embodies the views

/notably

2.

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