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notably that economic viability need not be a pre-condition of political independence (c.f. Tuvalu) - he has expressed to us in recent weeks. But, as aid policy is also at issue, the PUS may consider that, although it has been cleared with ODA officials, he should send simultaneously a side-copy of the sub- mission and draft despatch to Mr Marten.
3. I realise that the Secretary of State will be pre-occupied with Rhodesia throughout September. But it would be very helpful to know whether he approves the policy recommended in this despatch before the FCO-sponsored seminar I have been conned into chairing at Sussex University on 24 September, to which Mr Quantrill has referred and which Mr Ridley has agreed to open: otherwise I fear that the discussions there could become even more waffly, tentative and unguided than they may prove to be anyway.
30 August 1979
R.P. Stratton
RJ Stratton
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