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83 the Contracting Parties at a latter date (eg the 198 Cartagena

Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine

Environment in the Wider Caribbean Region). Although we have not

yet had to face the question of contributions to such agreements,

we shall soon need to.

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[WIAD:

Is this right? What about Montserrat, BVI and Anguilla

contributions to OECS etc?]

The dilemma we face in these circumstances is that the UK has no

direct interest in the regional agreement (ie the UK metropolitan

territory is not within its geographical scope and it is outside

the scope of the budgets for the Whitehall departments who may

lead for the UK on the subject matter). Who should meet the

financial contribution under such an agreement, the UK or the

Dependent Territories included in our ratification?

responsible, as the Contracting Party, should the UK reclaim the

cost from the Dependent Territories? If so, on what basis would

the cost be apportioned? The UK, where it is the Contracting

Party, would be responsible in the case of default.

If the UK is

13. The discussion in earlier paragraphs concerning Dependent

Territory compliance with treaty obligations also applies to

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