TNAG-0266-FCO40-302-Responsibility-of-UK-for-colonial-expatriate-pensions-of-Hon-1972 — Page 71

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possible to reach agreement on these recommendations

at the meeting between officials on 13 January.

But if not there would seem no alternative but for

officials to put forward disagreed recommendations;

(c) it remains our view that the proposals in MISC.260(70)1,

which were formulated long after Ministers decided in

Favour of Hr. Stewart's proposals in the Southern

Yemen cuse, make no difference to the merits of that

case where indigenous pensioners are concerned.

Ministers have already accepted that there was a case

for making an exception in the case of Southern Women

indigenous pensioners because or the exceptional

circumstances through which the problem developed.

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