Article 18
The widow of a former staff member who left the service before reaching the age of 60 years and requested that his retirement pension be deferred until the first day of the calendar month following that during which he reached the age of 60 years shall be entitled, provided that she had been married to him for at least one year when he left the service of the Foundation, and subject to Article 21 to a widow's pension equal to 60 % of the retirement pension which would have been payable to her husband at the age of 60 years. The minimum widow's pension shall be 35 % of the staff member's last monthly basic salary; the amount of the widow's pension shall in no case, however, exceed the amount of the retirement pension to which the staff member would have been entitled at the age of 60 years. The condition of duration of the marriage specified in the first paragraph shall not be taken into account if there are one or more children of a marriage contracted by the staff member before he left the service, provided that the widow maintains or has maintained those children.