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Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

OVERSEAS PENSIONS POLICY

Joint OPDO/DVO(0) Meeting to be held on

13 January at 11.0 a.m. in Conference

Room 'C' at the Cabinet Office

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Problem

2.

The meeting will discuss two papers:

a)

MISC.260(70)1

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Memorandum by the Minister

of Overseas Development on Pensions Policy.

b) MISC.260(70)2 Memorandum by Arabian

Department of the F.C.O. on Southern Yemeni

Pensions.

Arabian Department will be represented at the

meeting and will take the lead on the second item.

Recommendation

3. We should support O.D.M. in general but there

are certain respects in which we want to see the

proposals extended.

Notes on issues of concern to the F.C.O.

4. a) General

The present position is that virtually all

pensions, of both expatriate and local

personnel, whether earned prior to or after

independence, are the responsibility of the

overseas government. The C.D.M. paper proposes

independent connives

st/cases

that H.M.G. should in most cases become fully

/responsible

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