HMOCS Members will lose their status as members of HMOCS on the change of sovereignty in 1997, and expect to be given the option of retiring with compensation and pension. Many will exercise that option because the Special Administrative Region Government will be responsible directly to a regime so different from HMG in political principle and practice that, for many of us, continuing service would compromise the precepts on which our commitment and loyalty are founded.
Had HMG not intended to honour these obligations, the Minister should have made an unequivocal statement to this effect when the Joint Declaration was initialled in 1984 so that HMOCS Members could then have made appropriate personal and career arrangements for the future. Although
we are encouraged by the Minister's latest statement, it is insufficient at this late stage to meet HMOCS Members very real concerns. On grounds of equity, an announcement of the arrangements that are to apply to HMOCS Members is long overdue.
We shall be grateful if you will acknowledge receipt of this letter personally, and for an assurance that we may anticipate a substantive reply in the very near future; if you consider this unlikely, will you please so advise us; as necessary, we intend collectively to ensure that this important issue does not languish, and is resolved at an early date.
This letter is copied for information to Alan Paul at the Hong Kong Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and to John Yaxley at the Hong Kong Government Office in London.
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