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ASIAN PACIFIC POSTAL UNION (APPU) EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING,

OCTOBER 1982

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2. WE THINK IT IMPORTANT TO RE-ESTABLISH THE PRINCIPLE

OF OBSERVER STATUS (WHICH HAS NOT BEEN RAISED SINCE 1977)

FOR THE OVERSEAS TERRITORIES FOR WHOSE INTERNATIONAL

RELATIONS THE UK IS RESPONSIBLE AND ON WHOSE BEHALF IT

SIGNED THE ACTS OF THE 1979 RIO DE JANEIRO UPU CONGRESS.

WE ARE THREFORE FORMALLY REQUESTING THE APPU CENTRAL

OFFICE FOR OBSERVER STATUS ON BEHALF OF THESE OVERSEAS

TERRITORIES.

3. AS A COURTESY WE WILL ALSO MENTION THAT DELEGATES

FROM THE BRUNEI POSTAL ADMINISTRATION ALONE WILL ATTEND.

IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES WE EXPECT NO DIFFICULTY OVER

THE GRANTING OF OBSERVER STATUS THUS ESTABLISHING

A PRECEDENT IN PREPARATION FOR ATTENDENCE AT THE CONGRESS.

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