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.,) "** ! In response to tho discovery last fall that Ugandan police personnel were in this country undergoing commercial helicopter training (wi rhout the Department's advance Ju? iwledge) » we instituted a new procedure under which visa • applications by officially-connected Ugandans and other representatives of Uganda must be referred to the Department for review. This procedure enables us to prevent travel by Ugandans to the United ntatos such as that of the hel.i copl.or personnel which would be incompatible with our human rights interests. (On these same grounds, v.'u a.lno made extrnord Inary efforts to bring about the early termination of the helicopter training program, efforts which were at least partially successful.) Overall, then, our bilateral relations with Uganda are Iiiyhly restricted, most specifically with respect to mat:tors touching fundmnonhnl human ri.<jh!:.s. lliihln the ini.ci-nal;it>nal cuiiiinvtn ll.y w e h a v e al.so uxpri;:;:;ed o u r i:i.<nci.!j]iu o v e r Uy-inda's human rights «.ituation. V7o slj.ongly .supporl.t^d IICIJJJ In at 1.1 to United M-ji ions )Iivi»an Hhjhln Cfiininir,!jion meeting in March of 1977 to being about a full oxo.minati.on and discussion of Uganda's human rights problems, in tbo hope that such attention von Id lead to amel.iorat.ior of. conditions within Uganda." Similarly, we welcomed the iutioduckion of a resolution on t3iis subject by cho Nordic ,'jiatc-1 in ibe UN Coneral Assembly''s