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DEPENDENT TERRITORIES ADVISER

Problem

1.

To reply to Sir R Posnett's letter of 8 December 1981 to

Sir E Youde in which he suggest the re-establishment of a

Dependent Territories Adviser post in the FCO.

Recommendation

2. I recommend that the Deputy Chief Clerk reply that we have

I attach a draft letter.

decided against such an appointment.

WIAD, SED, SAmD and PPD agree.

Background and Argument

3. Sir R Posnett himself was formerly the Dependent Territories

Adviser. He combined the post with that of UK Commissioner on

the British Phosphate Commission. The Dependent Territories

Adviser post lapsed in 1979 when he was posted to Uganda. His

British Phospate Commissioner's duties passed to the Head of SPD.

4.

The possible need for an Adviser to Governors was considered

at the Conference of Caribbean Governors in Barbados in January 1981.

It was an item in an agenda paper on Future Staffing in the

Dependent Territories.

This paper made a number of recommendations

for dealing with the problem of staffing senior Dependent

Territory posts as the pool of HMOCS experience dried up.

The Conference noted the last recommendation of the paper that

in 1982, depending on the economic constraints at the time,

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