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v IMMEDIATE CONFIDENTIAL GPS 380 * AMENDED DISTRIBUTION* - 5 JUNE 197? f 'CYPHER/CAT A • FROM KAMPALA O5133OZ CONFIDENTIAL TO IMMEDIATE FCO TEL NO 119 OF 5 JUNE INFO ROUTINE NAIROBI LAGOS MY TEL MO 110 CHGM RADIO UGANDA TODAY ANNOUNCED THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA HAD, THROUGH A VISITING DELEGATION COMPRISING BRIGADIER MOHAMED VUSHISHI AND MR AKADIRI, DIRECTOR OF AFRICAN AFFAIRS, HFA DL DELIVERED A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT AMIN FROM PRESIDENT ACHEAMPONG. THE LATTER EXPRESSED CONCERN AEOUT THE DISTRUBING REPORTS HE HAD HEARD AS A RESULT OF WHICH THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER HAD ADVISED AM IN THAT HIS PRESENCE AT CHGM WOULD BE INAPPROPRIATE. THE MESSAGE REFERRED TO A LETTER FROM H M THE QUEEN, DATED 22 MAY, BUT SIGNED BY THE PM, EXPRESSING HER UNWILLINGMESS TO RECEIVE HIM. THE GOVT OF NIGERIA CONSIDERED THIS AN UNPRECEDENTED STEP IN COMMON - WEALTH RELATIONS BECAUSE THE COMMONWEALTH IS A FREE ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN STATES AMD THE RIGHT TO ATTEND A CHGM OF ANY MEMBER STATE HAD NEVER PREVIOUSLY BEEN QUESTIONED. 2. AMIN REPLIED THAT OBVIOUSLY REVOLUTIONARY LEADERS LIKE HIMSELF WOULD NOT BE WELCOMED BY HMG AND THAT LATTER WISHES TO ISOLATE UGANDA. THE UK COULD FAVOUR ESCAPING UGANDA GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, BUT IT WAS WASTING ITS TIME BECAUSE IT WOULD CHANGE NOTHER HERE. THE UGANDA QUESTION HAD ALREADY CAUSED DIFFERENCES AMONG COMMON- WEALTH COUNTRIES , MANY OF WHICH WOULD NOT 3E REPRESENTED AT CHGM AT HIGHEST LEVEL. UGANDA WOULD BE REPRESENTED AT 1979 CONFERENCE. AMIN WAS CONTEMPLATING SOME SERIOUS ACTION AGAINST THE BRITISH IN UGANDA BECAUSE THEY (THE BRITISH) WERE THE SAME EVERYWHERE (EG SOUTH AFRICA AND RHODESIA), BUT HE WOULD NOT DISCLOSE WHAT THIS ACTION WOULD BE. 3. ON THE UGANDAN SIDE, BRIGADIER MOSES ALI, MINISTER OF FINANCE, AND EKOCHU, PPS TO PRESIDENT, ATTENDED. CONFIDENTIAL A . THIS