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PRIME MINISTER PM/77/84 CONFIDENTIAL C President Amin 1. You will have seen the press reports that President Amin has announced his intention of attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York and of transiting Heathrow en route. 2, This may be another of Amin's extravagant jokes and the chance of him attending the General Assembly are probably not very great. Even if he does come via Heathrow he may well simply pass straight through in the normal way (although there will undoubtedly be problems with the press if he does). I do not think however we can afford to take the risk of being caught napping if he does tun up and seek to enter the UK. He has a former wife here and then has been a sug -ion that he has a child or children at school he: under assumed -es (although we have been unable to confirm this): he might use tr- .r presence as a pretext for a visit. I am quil sure that if A: were to seek admission to the United Kingdom we should exclude _3. We agreed in the context of his proposed attendance at tr.e Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting that hi< presence here would be totally unacceptable to public and /Parliamentary CONFIDENTIAL