57. Mr. Creech Jonesasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will now state what arrangements are being made for the transfer of the Southern Cameroons to the Cameroun Republic: what form of Government will be adopted for the Cameroons; what economic and fiscal arrangements will operate after the transfer; what provision is being made for the existing administrative and technical staffs and the administrative frame work of the Southern Cameroons; and whether the aid of the Colonial Development and Welfare and Colonial Development Corporation will come to an end.
§ Mr. H. FraserIn accordance with the recent United Nations Resolution there will have to be discussions between the United Kingdom as Administering Authority, the Cameroun Republic and the Southern Cameroons to settle the arrangements for unification. The two countries intend to join in a Federation but the detailed constitutional, economic and fiscal arrangements and the administrative framework have yet to be worked out. Colonial Development and Welfare 95W assistance will cease because the Southern Cameroons as part of a foreign country will not be eligible for it. While the C.D.C. will not be able to undertake new schemes there, it will be able to continue its planned investment in the Cameroons Development Corporation.