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Rhodesia
Capital provision made a contingency.
Indian Sub-continent
The revised figures for 1972/73 maintain what is regarded as the unavoidable minimum programme for India itself and the minimum sums which can be regarded as unavoidable Commitments for Pakistan and Bangladesh. The Indian Government may again raise the question of our earlier offer (in rather different circumstances) of £10m compensation for the imposition of a textile tariff, and there is no separate provision for our meeting our share of the international commitments likely to be undertaken for both Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Ghana
The cuts are unavoidably speculative and depend on the nature of a general settlement if any with the new regime.
Ceylon
The cuts seem consistent with our interests.
Jordan
Possible but politically difficult.
Turkey
While the cut proposed is sustainable it would be difficult to maintain at a time when we are likely to be required, in
addition to our own bilateral programme, to begin to take part in the Community programme for Turkey.
Latin America
The cuts are not intended to be restrictive but to recognise our continuing difficulty in spending there.
UNDP
We may be forfeiting some of the goodwill that our recent increase may have secured by levelling this off for subsequent years; and may thereby prejudice the amount of business we normally get from UNDP.
I DA
The cuts here represent a different basis of assumption. Previously we have accepted the Bank's advice of likely annual requirements; we are now attempting to relate this to our experience of outturn.
Pensions
The increase for 1972/73 is simply an inevitable result of under- expenditure in 1971/72. It represents a commitment which once taken up we cannot reject or delay.
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