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(3P3 200 a 1 1 PHER CAT A FM FCO 171833Z CONFIDENTIAL TO PRIORITY JEDDA TELNO 389 OF 17 JUNE, PLEASE PASS FOLLOWING MESSAGE TO PRINCE SAUD A SSIBLEi BEG I MS I KNOW THAT THE PRIME MINISTER EXPRESSED HIS THANKS TO HIS HIGHNESS CROWN PRINCE FAHD AT THE TIME FOR YOUR HELP TO US OVER PRESIDENT AMIN'S POSSIBLE ATTENDANCE AT THE COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING, NOW THAT THE MEETING IS OVER, I WANT TO EXPRESS TO YOU AGAIN OUR GRATITUDE FOR THE WAY IN WHICH YGU HELPED US, THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THE INTERESTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH -WOULD HAVE SUFFERED IF PRESIDENT AMIM HAD DECIDED TO TRY TO COME TO LONDON, THE ACTION WHICH YOU TOOK SO PROMPTLY AT OUR REQUEST SUCCEEDED \!l AVERTING THAT DANGER AND, AS YOU WILL HAVE SEEM, WE HAD A SUCCESSFUL MEETING, I ALSO WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT, IN ASKING YOUR EMBASSY IN LONDON TO CLOSE THE UGANDAN INTERESTS SECTION, I WAS MAKING AM INEVITABLE RESPONSE TO THE MEASURES WHICH THE UGANDAN GOVERNMENT TOOK AGAINST OUR INTERESTS SECTION IN KAMPALA. MY ACTION WAS IN MO WAY A CRITICISM OF THE WAY YOUR EMBASSY HAVE LOOKED AFTER UGANDAN INTERESTS IN THIS COUNTRY, ON THE CONTRARY, YOUR AMBASSADOR HAS THROUGHOUT HANDLED A DELICATE ISSUE IN AM EXEMPLARY FASHION. WITH WARM GOOD WISHES, DAVID OWEN. ENDS, OWEN FILES M SE_NT~ TO P pS| PSJ Wfc.1 R. O c.T