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affairs and the entrustment to the Governor of the formal power of negotiation and concluding agreements;

that there is nothing in the Letters Patent or Royal Instructions, or other constitutional law, which would preclude our making such a declaration based on policy and practice.

Foreign & Commonwealth Office London

19 June 1985

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