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as Chief Secretary, Falklands) for about 3 years. Approximately

2 officers, according to requirements, should be similarly

selected in each successive year.

Short-term training requirements should be made by brief

attachments of between one and three months to suitable

territories.

Governors.

These should be identified in consultation with

Existing posts suitable as preparatory slots in certain

FCO departments should be identified through routine inspections.

Officers employed on short-term 'emergency' assignments in Dependent Territories should be considered by POD and HKGD

as possible future candidates for longer term Dependent

Territories work.

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

consideration should be given to the appointment of a senior

ex-Governor to act as a special Adviser.

Hong Kong and General Department Foreign and Commonwealth Office

June 1981

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