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the subject has not resurfaced formally in recent meetings of the JLG (although the Chinese said at the last JLG that they would wish to revert at some point).
7.
Lu
In October 1992, the HKCCSA saw Lu Ping in Peking.
apparently expressed support for a fund and said that the Chinese side would raise it at the next meeting of the JLG.
The HKCCSA also wrote to the Prime Minister on 23 October
asking him to take up the matter of pension safeguards with
the Chinese Government. Their letter and the Private
Secretary/No 10's reply are enclosed.
8.
The HKCCSA representatives have spent four days in London. We understand that they have seen some MPs and civil service
union leaders. On 16 November they met me and Mr Whitney and made the following points:
- there is a serious lack of confidence on the part of Hong Kong civil servants about the future of their pensions after
1997, particularly if the SARG is in financial difficulty
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the civil service pension constitutes one quarter of the total employment package. Civil servants have a legitimate right to expect the British Hong Kong Government to safeguard pensions earned under British rule
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the HKG continually repeat old arguments that payment of pensions is safeguarded in the Joint Declaration and the Basic
Law but offer nothing concrete to address the confidence
problem
the Association would like HMG to pay all pension liabilities by 1997, but they accept that this is an unrealistic proposition
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