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1997 we cannot expect the Home Office to review the
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case for a BDT citizenship which would grant the right of separate VAAS
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abode for the smaller Dependent Territories, but
meanwhile we should take such palliative measures
in our power to show good will and ease the travel of
Bermudians to Europe. That/J Sharpe has felt the need to
write both to our Ambassador to the EC and to the Home
Office is a virtual admission that he does not feel
strong enough to negotiate alone with the governments of
major Western European States. Given HMG's ultimate
responsibility for the external relations of our
dependent territories, we should be failing in our
duty if we continued to distance ourselves from this
issue.
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8. The Secretary of State on whom the Premier called on
31 January, gave his support in principle to Bermuda's
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efforts. We now put these words into practice by
instructing our Embassies to make approaches on Bermuda's
behalf to those Foreign Ministers of the six EC countries
with which an abolition agreement has not yet been
signed.
Without making any commitment on the future of
the BDTC citizenship, we have the opportunity here to
help resolve a thoroughly unsatisfactory and illogical
situation, which was neither of Bermuda's making nor the
intention of the Legilsators of the 1981 Act. Once the
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