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25 JUN 1979

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9 discussed with A Stratton this morning he agrees that we should now send out letter on the lines of the attached drafts (which I have amended to take account of the points you raised earlier) to the academic participants on the list immediately below, to the Smitland for Wallace and to the Gryana High Commissioner. There after, as soon as we have a geneal indication of the response, we should convene a meeting to decide on other participants

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9 again mygested to N Stratton that, in the absence of anybody obvious from the IDS, it would be most appropriate for the senior FCO representative (.e. himself) to take the chair, particularly as we wanted some one who would actually run the seminar, not just be a figurehead. He remained reluctant to commit himself...

W.E. Chantill

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lines you muggested.

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