TNAG-1119-FCO40-1394-Territorial-claims-to-British-possessions-and-dependencies-1982 — Page 2

From: Mr P F Preston

Defence Secretariat Division 11 MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Main Building Whitehall London SW1A 2HB Telephone 01-218 3625(Direct Dialling)

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G C Livesey Esq

Hong Kong and General Department Foreign and Commonwealth Office

LONDON SW1A 2AH

Your reference

Our reference

R/DS11/11/12/1

26 May 1982

Dear Livesey,

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

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THIS IS A COPY

THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR 40.YEARS UNDER FQI

EXEMPTION NO... 27 (1)

BRITISH POSSESSIONS AND DEPENDENCIES

1. Thank you for your minute of 21 May about Mr Robertson's ques- tion, which eventually reached me this morning.

2. Subject to the views of the Southern European Department there seems no need for the answer to this question to make any mention of the Sovereign Base Areas.

3.

4. I am copying this letter to Alan Hunt of the Southern European Department.

Deserved M. Phumbly (Sco)

who confirms that SBA ought the

left off the bit.

Yours sincerely,

Peter Preston

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