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2.
(c) In the event of an independent Namibia, the
UK would provide development assistance
particularly in education. This would affect
Council activities and although Aid funds
could be expected to provide most of the
finance any new Council posts would require
a contribution from the FCO's Grant in Aid
to the British Council.
(d)
As a result of the running down of the Aid
programme in richer countries such as Nigeria,
Malaysia and Singapore the Council will have
to continue to find additional Information
funds by redeployment over the next 4 years
(combined with a switch to fully paid services
and some reductions in staff and activity,
as in Nigeria).
2.
As far as the Overseas Information Programme
as a whole is concerned we are going to need new
money for the BBC as a result of the decisions take
in Cmnd 7308 on audibility and for Civil Defence
Installations.
3.
In the case of the Official Information
Services both the FCO and COI programmes were cut by
£0.9 m in 1979/80 and £0.7 m thereafter in this
year's PESC exercise, so that there is no question
of these programmes making a contr bution to the
/British
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