TNAG-2060-FCO40-2938-Hong-Kong-Overseas-Service-Pensioners--Association-(OSPA)-1990 — Page 36

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Thank

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Posez coun

A R Paul

Hong Kong Department

24 August 1990

CC:

Mr Burns

Mr Fifoot, Legal

Advisers

PS/Lord Caithness

(es/hord Caither) 24/8

OVERSEAS SERVICE PENSIONERS' ASSOCIATION

Problem

LIKB RECEIVED IN

11 SEP 1990

233/1

A 1. A letter from Mr Pusinelli, Chairman of the Overseas

Service Pensioners' Association (OSPA), to Mr Maude seeking an assurance that we will introduce a General Compensation

Scheme for members of Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service (HMOCS) in Hong Kong.

Recommendation

2. I submit a draft reply from Lord Caithness. The ODA and Mr Fifoot (Legal Advisers) agree.

Background

3. OSPA is an organisation of retired members of HMOCS who

have served in Dependent Territories. OSPA's President is

Lord Grey of Naunton. The focus of OSPA's work is now on

Hong Kong, as this is now the only dependent territory where

(other then a literal handful of) HMOCS members remain.

4.

Mr Pusinelli has been in correspondence with the FCO and the Hong Kong Government on HMOCS matters for many years. One of the main issues with which OSPA have long been

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