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(v) As for Palestine pensions, Israel could be excluded
from the scheme as being a donor country, while Jordan could also be excluded since HMG were already meeting its pensions bill.
(vi) The former West Indies Federation should be excluded
as their pensions were covered either by annuities purchased from a Canadian insurance company or by capital payments to the former unit territories.
(vii)
The Eastern Caribbean Associated States should be included: no difficulty would arise over the apportionment of cost, since under the scheme this would be related not to "Independence Day", but to the date on which the Public Service Commission became executive.
8. It was agreed that FCO Geographical Departments should be consulted on these and other countries whose claims to inclusion might be disputed.
Categories of pensioners to be included
9. Discussion took place of the problem presented by the Asian
The ODM pensioners in East Africa (para. 7 of the ODM note). representatives said that their Ministry took the view that the Asian, despite their position under the Public Officers Agreements, tire signe should not be admitted to the scheme: this view was based not on racial grounds, but on the various criteria which had been promulgated for admission to HMOCS and OSAS, which made it clear that the Asians could not be considered in the same category as HMOCS/OSAS staff.
10.
Mr. Le Tocq said that so far as the East African Governments were concerned, the Asians were expatriates; those who had not taken local citizenship were likely to be forced into leaving East Africa over the next few years, and it was highly probable that the East African Governments would default on Asian pensions and look to Britain to pick them up.
11. It was agreed that the problem of the East African Asians would need further study. The ODM undertook to prepare a note setting out the definitions of officers entitled to benefit from the provisions of arrangements such as the East African Public Officers' Agreements, HMOCS, OSAS, and UK Pensions Supplements. It was noted that the price of excluding Asians from the scheme might be the exclusion of European "belongers" also.
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M.L. Cahill
3rd October, 1969.
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