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17) Southern Yemen

A separate, but related, problem under discussion

is the position with regard to Southern Yemeni indigenous

pensioners. Despite a Ministerial decision last March

in favour of the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary's

proposals to "pick up" the terminal benefits of thes✪

pensioners, the C.D.K. has declined to include them in

its current proposals. We would certainly not wish to

provide for the inclusion of indigenous pensioners in the

general proposals, and the F.C.0. are therefore pressing

this case separately, reared as it is to the special

circumstances of Southem Yemen's independence. It is

not entirely clear whether Mrs. Hart intenda to raise the

Southern Yemen question at this meeting, but in case she

does a paper on this subject is at Annex B.

Conied to:

Sin L. Kons on

Mr. McCarthy (Arabian Dept.) Mr. Blakeway (Caribbean Dept.) Kr. Dalton (CSAD)

Mr. Steggle (DAD)

Mr. Stewart (Hong Kong Dept.) Fe, Miller (NAD)

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Lips Svara (S/D)

Hr. Munro (SWED)

(J.V.R. Shakespeare) 6 January 1970.

Mr. McQuiggan (VAD) Miss Sinclair (SRAD) Mr. Fairclough (WID) Mr. Caell (Claime Dept.)

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