TNAG-0742-FCO40-946-Relations-between-China-and-Hong-Kong-1978 — Page 58

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2.

(c) In the event of an independent Namibia, the

UK would provide development assistance

particularly in education. This would affect

Council activities and although Aid funds

could be expected to provide most of the

finance any new Council posts would require

a contribution from the FCO's Grant in Aid

to the British Council.

(d)

As a result of the running down of the Aid

programme in richer countries such as Nigeria,

Malaysia and Singapore the Council will have

to continue to find additional Information

funds by redeployment over the next 4 years

(combined with a switch to fully paid services

and some reductions in staff and activity,

as in Nigeria).

2.

As far as the Overseas Information Programme

as a whole is concerned we are going to need new

money for the BBC as a result of the decisions take

in Cmnd 7308 on audibility and for Civil Defence

Installations.

3.

In the case of the Official Information

Services both the FCO and COI programmes were cut by

£0.9 m in 1979/80 and £0.7 m thereafter in this

year's PESC exercise, so that there is no question

of these programmes making a contr bution to the

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