TNAG-0997-FCO40-1222-Future-staffing-of-Dependent-Territories-1981 — Page 25

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30 December 1980

FUTURE STAFFING IN THE DEPENDENT TERRITORIES

1. We have been looking at the means of providing senior administrative staff for the Dependent Territories, except Hong Kong, in the next 10 years or so; the result is the attached paper.

2, While urging the continued use of officers with HMOCS experience, the paper recognises that more posts will have to be filled by Diplomatic Service officers who have not served in Dependent Territories. To meet this it suggests more deliberate use of on-the-job training posts in the Dependent Territories, and considers other forms of training.

3. This subject is on the Agenda of the Caribbean OAG's Conference in January 1981; those of you who will be attending will have the opportunity of commenting then. I should welcome comments by other OAGS by the middle of February.

4.

I am sending copies of this letter, and the enclosure, for information only to the Administrators of Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, and to Martin Rowlands, Secretary for the Civil Service in Hong Kong. Annexes B, C and D are of a staff-in-confidence nature and are not being circulated.

R D Clift

Hong Kong and General Department

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