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«%3 SECRET FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE VIEWS ON CONTINGENCY PLANS FOR THE POSSIBLE ARRIVAL OF PRESIDENT AMIN Powers to Refuse Entry - Paragraph 3 1. In the Foreign and Commonwealth Office view, even if President Amin disregards the Prime Minister's message-that his presence in the UK is unacceptable,. and arrives with a delegation, he must be given a'el/ear ujjpui' liwl ly to nominate a delegation to represent Uganda at the CHGM. The whole basis of the UK soundings of the Commonwealth aimed at their eventual acquiescence in Amin*s personal exclusion is that Uganda »a*mot be excluded from the CHGM. Hie rtjy I uT>fehe Commonwealth would simply not understand if, aft&riihey and Amin himself have been told that there isja<r^esire to exclude a Ugandan delegation led by someone^erfher than Amin, Uganda were not, in the event, represented, unless it were possible to demonstrate that Uganda was absent as the result of a decision byPjx&sircLent Amin, after having been given the clear Tp+mrn±j .tn r\ nrnj wnt n -a. ft pi, e, ga, t i nn. The PCO agree that there might be difficulties if,, in negotiations,. President Amin were to nominate a leader or members of a delegation who were unacceptable on personal grounds,to tho Horns €retu'u lary* ffiio FCO noiictholcDD take tho view that--wfaAle, ran to be excluded "P should rather be left to final be Amin himself.—bftla question bliuuld. nut"" be decision with the aim of securing agreement with Amin in negotiation on the nomination of a delegation acceptable to both him and HMG. Amin's Arrival 2. Foreign and Commonwealth Office Legal advice is to the effect that Amin's personal aircraft may be regarded, for the purposes of the Chicago Convention, as a State Aircraft. It would therefore be desirable to inform its pilot that he has no clearance to enter British airspace or to land in Britain. If the aircraft carrying President Amin were then to depart, /there would _ 1 _ SECRET