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Volume #18 - 654. | |
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CHAPTER VII COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS | |
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PART
3 COLOMBO PLAN | |
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SECTION
F PAKISTAN | |
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DEA/11038-2-40 |
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Secretary of State for External Affairs to High Commissioner in Pakistan | |
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TELEGRAM AIR NO. 2 CONFIDENTIAL |
Ottawa,
January 28th, 1952 |
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COLOMBO PLAN — PROGRAMME FOR PAKISTAN | |
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As a result of careful investigations into the supply situation in Canada, it has now become clear that the original programme for Pakistan which had been worked out with Pakistan officials and approved by the Cabinet must be amended. We had been considering the possibility of providing a number of diesel locomotives to substitute for other items for which materials are not available. However, after consultation with the International Bank we have decided not to go ahead with this project which the Bank itself is anxious to handle. 2. We have now drawn up a revised programme which responsible officials here consider to be practicable in present circumstances. We propose to submit the revised programme to the Cabinet within the next week or ten days. Meanwhile we have discussed it with Mohammed Ali, who is informing his government and who assures us that it will be acceptable. 3. For your information the programme, subject to Cabinet approval would be as follows: (a) Cement Plant for Thal This would include engineering survey and provision and erection of machinery. It would not include the construction of the building except for the provision of a minimum amount of structural steel and the provision if necessary of a temporary diesel power plant. Agreement would include the qualification that the construction of the plant would be subject to review by the Canadian and Pakistan Governments after receipt of the engineering report. Approximate cost estimated at $5 million. (b) Photographic and Geological Survey Cost $2 million. (c) Equipment for Thal Livestock Farm Cost $2 hundred thousand. (d) Railway Ties in an amount to bring the total to $10 million. | |
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