TNAG-1218-FCO40-1523-Future-of-the-Dependent-Territories-1983 — Page 178

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13 April 1983

Mr Ivor Stanbrook (Bromley, Orpington); To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the policy of Her Majesty's Government regarding the constitutional progress of dependent territories of the United Kingdom.

No 33

MR CRANLEY ONSLOW

Our general policy is to encourage the constitutional

development of Dependent Territories towards independence,

where this is a feasible option: but we do not force

independence on those who do not want it.

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