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J BY TELLING A MEMBER STATE OF AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION WHO SHOULD REPRESENT IT AT MEETINGS OF THAT ORGANISATION, THE BR1TJ GOVERNMENT IS NOT ONLY INTERFERING IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS O i STATE BUT ALSO CREATING A BAD AND DANGEROUS PRECEDEMT FOR THE" j FUTURE OF THE COMMONWEALTH, BY MIXING UP BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS WITH ' .AFFAIRS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE COMMONWEALTH FAMILY BRITAIN IS YET i COMMITTING ANOTHER GRAVE MISTAKE. ' ! I AM, HOWEVER, CONFIDENT THAT WHATEVER HANOEUVERS AND MACHINATIONS BRITAIN AND A FEW OTHER MEMBERS WHO ARE IN HER POCKETS MAY HAKE THESE DO NOT REPRESENT THE TRUE FEELINGS OF OUR ORGANISATION. AS FOR YOU, MY DEAR MR SECRETARY GENERAL, PERHAPS I DO UQ1 NEED i TO REMIND YOU THAT YOUR ELECTION TO THAT POST BY A UNANIMOUS VOTE OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE COMMONWEALTH AT THE LAST MEETING IN • KINGYTON JAMAICA, IN 1975 WAS ONLY MADE POSSIBLE BY THE DIRECTIVES I GAVE TO MY DELEGATION TO THAT CONFERENCE TO SUPPORT YOU AS THE FIRST SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH FROM A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY WHICH IS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT, ; I WOULD BE FAILING IN MY DUTY OF PROMOTING THE NOBLE IDEALS FOR , v WHICH THE COMMONWEALTH STANDS IF I DID NOT CAUTION AGAINST THE DAGGERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT BEING MANIPULATED BY A MEMBER OF OUR ORGANISATION, I THOUGHT IT NECESSARY THAT I SHOULD INFORM YOU ABOUT THE RECENT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER AND MYSELF SO A3 TO LCT YOU KNOW UGAKDA3 POSITION CONCERrllflG THE FORTH-COMING MEETIMG OF THE COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT JUST IN CASE UGANDA 13 NOT REPRESENTED* I WISH, HOWEVER, TO ASSURE YOU, YOUR EXCELLENCY THAT UGANDA IS COMMITTED TO THE IDEALS FOR WHICH THE COMMONWEALTH STANDS AND APPRECIATES THE EFFORTS YOU AS ITS SECRETARY GENERAL IS MAKING TOWARDS-THEIR REALIZATION, FINALLY, PLEASE, ACCEPT, YOUR EXCELLENCY, THE' ASSURANCE OF MY HIGHEST CONSIDERATION AND ESTEEM, 2 ' / AL-HAJI RESTRICTED