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State has an obligation to receive the expellee...

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We are conscious that the doubts which we have

expressed themselves-throw doubt upon the views publicly expressed by Ministers then concerned, including the Attorney-General at the time, to justify the reception into this country of East African Asians expelled by the Ugandan administration. That justification could no

We take the view that this is an area in

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doubt have been founded solely upon those principles of humanity and of moral obligation, which were also expressed, rather than upon a doubtful principle of international law. We take into account, although we are not convinced by, those opinions.

which there is every reason for international law to develop, and in particular that the individual human being has every reason to seek the protection of international law. We believe, however, that the right method of achieving this aim is by the use of Convention which clearly defines the obligations and provides the machinery for their enforcement; we draw attention in this context to Protocol No. 4 to the European Convention-on Human Rights

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and Fundamental Freedoms, which forbids the expulsion of anyone from the territory of a State of which he is a national and which also provides that no-one shall be deprived of the right to enter the territory of a State

of which he is a national,

ratified this Protocol.

The UK has signed but not

5.