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r CONFIDENTIAL GPS 620 F L A S H CYPHER CAT A ' • * • FM FCO 26183OZ CONFIDENTIAL DESKBY KAMPAU AMD NAIROBI (2705002) DESKBY PARIS (2708002) TO FLASH UKMIS NEW YORK TELNO 563 OF 26 JULY INFO IMMEDIATE KAMPALA PARIS NAIROBI WASHINGTON RELATIONS WITH UGANDA i. I DECIDED A FORTNIGHT AGO THAT IT HAD BECOME IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN A PRODUCTIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PRESENT UGANDAN GOVERNMENT. WE THEREFORE SET ABOUT ARRANGING AN ORDERLY DISENGAGEMENT WHICH WOULD TERMINATE IN THE BREAKING OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS AFTER A PERIOD WHICH WOULD HAVE GIVEN TIME FOR THOSE MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH COMMUNITY WHO WISHED TO DO SO TO LEAVE. IT WAS MY INTENTION TO ANNOUNCE-THIS DECISION AS BEING THE OUTCOME OF THE REVIEW'OF OUR RELATIONS WHICH, AT THE TIME OF THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MRS BLOCH, WE ANNOUNCED THAT WE WERE CONDUCTING WITH,THE ASSISTANCE OF MR HEKMESSY, THE FRENCH ' HAVE UNDERTAKEN TO ACT AS PROTECTING POWER* 2, THIS DECISION SHOULD NOT HOWEVER BE SEEN AS BEING BASED ON THE CASE OF MRS BLOCH. THE FACT IS THAT WE HAVE HAD RECURRING CRISES WITH PRESIDENT AMIN, EACH OF WHICH HAS CAUSED US SEVERE EMBARRASSMENT SINCE THE HILLS AFFAIR LAST YEAR WE HAVE MADE'A DETERMINED ATTEMPT TO GET ON TERMS WITH HIM AND WE BELIEVED THAT WE HAD TO SOME EXTENT SUCCEEDED. WE HAVE NOW ONE MORE EXAMPLE OF HIS IRRATIONALITY AND INTRACTABILITY AND ARE BACK TO SQUARE ONE. I HAVE DECIDED THAT THE TIME HAS COME TO STOP TRYING, ' 3. I HAD HOPED THAT, BY GIVING IT A COUPLE OF WEEKS, WE WOULD COKFIBEpIAL / HAVE ALLOWED