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CONFIDENTIAL FHHW— PRIME MINISTER President Amin and the Commonwealth Heads of Heeting 1. We agreed at our meeting on Thursday that I would consider appropriate action to warn British subjects in Uganda about the increased risk they are likely to run at the time of the Common- wealth Heads of Government Meeting. 2. There are at present about 600 British subjects in Uganda of whom just over half live in the Kampala area, while the remainder are up-country. In addition, there are about 180 Canadian, other Commonwealth and Irish citizens in Uganda, the majority of whom live in the countryside. 3. As you discovered when you visited Uganda, most of those who now remain are a hard core of businessmen and missionaries who have made their life in Uganda and have not paid much heed to our earlier warnings to them. These warnings, which have been made regularly since we broke off relations with Uganda in July of last year, have taken the following form: (i) Ted Rowlands spoke to representatives of the missionary societies working in Uganda in March, drawing their attention to the possible risks to which they are exposed and our limited ability to assist them; (ii) the FCO, the Department of Trade and the British High Commission in Nairobi continue to warn people proposing to travel to Uganda of the risks; and /(iii)