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cases Rhodesia and the former Central African and West Indies Federations. The provisional ODM view is that HMG's offer should not be extended to these
Countries, mainly because their pension obligations are either small in amount ar were the subject of specific negotiations a good many years ago. Sudan might be included in this category, but on balance it might be wise to
offer to take over its pensions.
5.
The
The second category consists of three small but prosperous dependencies Their claims to relief are scant on financial Bahamas, Bermuda and Brunei.
grounds, but it would be difficult to justify their exclusion in principle
and the sums at stake are not large.
6.
Third, there is the question of Hong Kong, which merits a category to
Its present capacity to pay its large pensions bill (some £600,000
itself.
a year) is not in doubt, but looking to the long term, it might be well advised to fund all its public service pensions, expatriate and local (possibly by means of a "deal" involving its sterling balances?).
7.
The Minister of Overseas Development hopes that it would be possible to define "expatriate" pension in such a way that, without any issue of racial discrimination arising, the large number of past and present Asian officers of East African governments would not come within the offer to take over the cost of pensions. There might however be technical difficulties to overcome: the terms of service of Asian officers are protected by the Public Officers Agreements in force with Kenya, Uganda and Zanzibar, but not by those with Tanganyika and the East African Community.
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