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17) Southern Yemen
A separate, but related, problem under discussion
is the position with regard to Southern Yemeni indigenous
pensioners. Despite a Ministerial decision last March
in favour of the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary's
proposals to "pick up" the terminal benefits of thes✪
pensioners, the C.D.K. has declined to include them in
its current proposals. We would certainly not wish to
provide for the inclusion of indigenous pensioners in the
general proposals, and the F.C.0. are therefore pressing
this case separately, reared as it is to the special
circumstances of Southem Yemen's independence. It is
not entirely clear whether Mrs. Hart intenda to raise the
Southern Yemen question at this meeting, but in case she
does a paper on this subject is at Annex B.
Conied to:
Sin L. Kons on
Mr. McCarthy (Arabian Dept.) Mr. Blakeway (Caribbean Dept.) Kr. Dalton (CSAD)
Mr. Steggle (DAD)
Mr. Stewart (Hong Kong Dept.) Fe, Miller (NAD)
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Lips Svara (S/D)
Hr. Munro (SWED)
(J.V.R. Shakespeare) 6 January 1970.
Mr. McQuiggan (VAD) Miss Sinclair (SRAD) Mr. Fairclough (WID) Mr. Caell (Claime Dept.)
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