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GNN340/1(13)

DSR 11 (Revised)

DRAFT: minute/letter/teleletter/despatch notex

FROM:

F H Brown

DEPARTMENT:

TEL. NO:

TYPE: Draft/Final 1+

Reference

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Mr White

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PS/Mr Rifkind

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Copies to:

PS/Mr Onslow PS/Lord Belstead Mr Fearn (SAMD) Mr Clift (HKGD)

Mr Edwards (WIAD)

Mr Carruthers (SPD)

Mr Spreckley (ECD(I)) Mr Wilson (SED)

Mr Partridge (MVD) Mr Jackson (Falklands

Unit) Parliamentary Unit

FALKLAND ISLANDS (BRITISH CITIZENSHIP) (NO 2) BILL

LORD BRUCE OF DONNINGTON

1. The attached draft brief was prepared for use by FCO

Ministers in a possible discussion in OD (FAF) on 6

September. The Secretary of State has requested however

that there should first be a Ministerial discussion to clear

lines within the FCO before approaching OD (FAF). (Mr

Holmes' minute of 20 August to PS/Mr Onslow

attached brief is accordingly submitted as, in the first

instance, background to that Ministerial discussion.

2.

:). The

The draft has been cleared with SAmD, HKGD, WIAD, SPD,

SED, MVD, the Falklands Unit and ECD(I).

3.

Mr Whitelaw is expected to enquire about FCO views on

his return from leave at the end of August.

4.

Home Office officials have already sent us for comment

in due course a draft Second Reading speech opposing the

on this

Bill. We shall not comment /until we know our own Ministers' views on the handling of this essentially Parliamentary

problem.