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23.
Miss Joan Lestor
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what are Her Majesty's Government's plans for the administrative future of the New Hebrides.
Mr. Luard
It is the intention of the British and French Governments to bring the territory to independence in 1980, if the people so decide, in accordance with a joint ministerial decision of July 1977. A Government of national unity was formed in the New Hebrides in December 1978.