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FROM:

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SA Foulds (Ms)

International & Commonwealth

Section

Research & Analysis Dept

32

thes 431k

RECEIVED IN

- 0 JUL 1999

Mr Stone

HKD

CC:

K Walker Esq, RAD

DATE:

11 May 1990

NATIONALITY OF LOCAL OFFICERS IN PREVIOUS COLONIAL GOVERNMENTS

26

LOCAL)

1. Your minute of 20 April to Ken Walker refers.

2.

been

International & Commonwealth Section has/ asked to collate relevant information from the various Sections of RAD and they have kindly provided material on Africa, Bahamas, Malaya and Aden which I now attach Middle East Section have also commented that Mandatory Palestine does not offer many precedents, although Palestinians had Mandate Government passports. Pensions are still paid (by ODA) to former civil servants both in the UK and locally. Nationality problems whether the recipient is Arab or Jewish, appear not to have surfaced. Years of pensionable service is what counts.

3. As you will see, the papers attached to Ms Kazer's minute on Malaya also include a note on pensions which may be of some help. African Section also have material on pensions should you wish to pursue this avenue in more detail.

4. Please let me know if you would like any particular aspect followed up.

Saxan folds.

S A Foulds (Ms)

OAB 2/79 210 6242

* Material on India/Pakistan, Ceylan + Burma also attached.

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