CONFIDENTIAL
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Miss Maysay Mr Fooyman LIS Mr Manch
Mr McLaren
PS/Lord Glenarthur
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HKC062
FROM:
DH Colvin
DATE:
South East Asian Dept
14) April 1989
CC:
Mr Gillmore
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Mr Yarnold, Defence Dept
Mr Thomas, SPD
Mr Cooper, Policy Planning
Mr Paul, HKD
FUTURE OF THE FIVE POWER DEFENCE ARRANGEMENTS
Problem.
Staff
1.
Whether to commend SEAD's paper on the FPDA to the Secretary of
State.
Recommendation
A
B
2. I recommend that Lord Glenarthur so commends the paper. Defence
Department and MOD concur.
Background and Argument
3.
Last year SEAD submitted a paper on the Future of the Five Power
Defence Arrangements. It went through several drafts before
satisfactorily incorporating the views of all interested parties.
The final version was submitted to Lord Glenarthur on 9 December
1988. Lord Glenarthur agreed that the paper made a convincing case
for supporting the FPDA. But he thought it be worthwhile to hold a preliminary round of discussions with Australia and New Zealand, recommended in the paper (para 16), to gauge how far the external
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.