A.D.S. Goodall Esq.
Western European Departmen÷ Foreign and Commonwealth Office Downing Street (' cat)
S1A 2AL
3rd Ccwoer 1977
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"AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" CONFERENCE ON ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
I mentioned to you, and also to Ivan Callan in your U epartment, the other day that our Personen Under Secretary, Robert Armstrong, had received an invitation to
ttend this conference in Stockholm in December. I now enlove fez pour un formation a copy of the invitation and supporting documents. Amiɛtron, has replied briefly to
the invitation saying that he is unable to attend. be delibera tely h va noi raised the question whether anyone else from the Home Office might attend the conference. It would be against our normal practice to be officially representer an pro-governmenti international conference of this kind. Moreover Merc would be an obvious in official
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campaign to enu the use of the death penalty: 1 though the united i abolitionist country, the issue is not or on white).
Ireland) governments have ever taken a definite link, and cusated in the Channel Islands and some of Lie Čependent torri tom
I mentioned to you when we spoke a statemen, on the last m details to tic ect that the conference would include 25 cOVENIMENTDEC "mostly accredited to Stocholm". We should be interested to hear received by our own Embassy. If it is, you will probably agree that reason why someone from the Embassy should not attend the conf@manera med
I am sending a copy of this letter and enclosures to Callan; colleague, 3 Stewart, who is currently caught up in another aspec¿ punishment question.
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- 5 OCT 1977
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