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the UK delegation) and selected UK non-government
organisations and professional bodies. The UN
Secretary General would invite UN member states (or
states with observer status at the General Assembly)
which it with which the UK has no official relations
or doe
not recognise and certain other inter-Governmental
organisations and international non-governmental
of both categories are) organisations. A Complete lists is annexed.
Argentina would be invited via the Swiss Government.
Ukraine and Byelorusia, although UN members, would
not be invited since the UK does not recognise them
as independent states. This is normal practices.
However, it is open to the Soviet Government to
include them in their own delegation.
7.
We are proposing that South Africa should be
invited by the British Government.
Since South
Africa is still a member of the UN this would be
consistent with the principle of universality.
However, South Africa was not invited to either the
AIDS Conference in 1989 or this year's Ozone Layer
The AIDS Conference was organised by
HMG in association with WHO. Ministers agreed that
South Africa should not be invited on the grounds
that it was not WHO practice to invite South Africa
to any of its meetings other than the Annual World
Conference.
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