CONFIDENTIAL
FM GIBRALTAR
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 32
OF 25173OZ JANUARY 1990
INFO IMMEDIATE MADRID
CONFIDENTIAL
054161
MDHIAN 3960
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5. BOSSANO SAID THAT HE ACCEPTED THAT GIBRALTAR MIGHT RISK MORE BY SEEKING A DEROGATION FROM THE EC RIGHTS OF RESIDENCE DIRECTIVE. GIVEN OUR VIEW THAT THE LIABILITY WHICH MIGHT ARISE THROUGH GIBRALTAR NOT BEING INCLUDED WAS IN PRACTICE NEGLIGIBLE, HE WANTED TO KNOW THAT HE COULD COME BACK TO US IF IT IN FACT PROVED TOO GREAT FOR GIBRALTAR TO COPE WITH. MR MAUDE SAID THAT HE COULD ALWAYS COME BACK TO US, BUT WE COULD NOT GIVE ANY SORT OF UNDERTAKING TO UNDERWRITE ALL COSTS IN THE FUTURE. MR MAUDE ALSO POINTED TO OUR PROPOSAL THAT THERE SHOULD BE PROVISION FOR A REVIEW. HE SUGGESTED THAT IF THE PROVISIONS OF THE DIRECTIVE WERE THAT POTENTIAL RESIDENTS MUST HAVE ADEQUATE RESOURCES, THIS PROVIDED ADEQUATE SAFEGUARDS. HE UNDERTOOK TO CHECK WHETHER THIS SAFEGUARD STILL APPLIED FOR PEOPLE WHO HAD ACQUIRED RESIDENCE (WITH ADEQUATE RESOURCES AT THE TIME) BY MEANS OF THE DIRECTIVE, BUT SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER AHD ADEQUATE RESOURCES TO MAINTAIN THEMSELVES.
6. BOSSANO ASKED FOR ODA HELP IN DEALING WITH THE PROBLEM OF ROCKS WHICH HAD BEEN LOOSENED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN, AND WERE NOW FALLING. SOME AREAS WERE NOW BECOMING VERY DANGEROUS, INCLUDING SOME WHICH WERE STILL MOD RESPONSIBILITY. HE HAD ALSO SOUGHT HELP FROM THE CFTC. HE HAD NO IDEA HOW MUCH IT WOULD COST, BUT SUGGESTED OF THE ORDER OF #200,000 #250,000. MR MAUDE UNDERTOOK TO PASS ON THE REQUEST TO ODA.
7. MR MAUDE EXPLAINED THE POSITION ON RELEASE OF LAND FOLLOWING THE GARRISON RESTRUCTURING, AND SAID THAT THE MOD HOPED TO BE IN A POSITION TO START DETAILED CONSULTATIONS VERY SOON. BOSSANO ASKED WHETHER IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO LOOK FIRST AT THE 20-ODD PROPERTIES WHICH SIR P TERRY HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN AUTHORISED TO TELL HIM ABOUT. THESE WERE MAINLY HOUSES WHICH THE GIBRALTAR GOVERNMENT HAD HAD ON LEASE FROM THE MOD FOR VARIOUS EXPATRIATE MANAGEMENT STAFF. THE MOD HAD NOW SAID THAT THEY MIGHT NEED THEM AGAIN. THE PROPERTIES WERE EMPTY, AND DETERIORATING RAPIDLY. IF A
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