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On the other hand income from other sources such as the United

Nations Fund for Population Activities and from multi-bilateral

programmes will show a substantial increase. Although the major

donors to multi-bilateral technical assistance programmes are still

the Scandinavian countries others are now entering into similar

arrangements. These countries include Federal Republic of

Germany, Japan and Canada.

Negotiations are also being carried on

with donor agencies in Australia, France, Ireland, Netherlands,

New Zealand and Switzerland.

United Kingdom Experts working for the ILO

4. A large number of UK experts contribute to the work of the ILO

in giving technical assistance to developing countries. About 20%

of all the fully qualified experts employed by the ILO in field

projects are British. During the last 25 years nearly 700 British

nationals have been employed as experts in ILO field missions

out of a total of nearly 4,000 coming from 92 different nationalities.

On 1 October this year there were 15 British nationals on the regular

staff of the ILO at Director level and another 140 in posts graded

as Professional.

Department of Employment

29 November 1974

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