Ministers discuss resettlement outside the UK, but ultimately the Government accepted UK passport holders expelled from Uganda. Minutes from a Cabinet Meeting held on 8th August 1972. (CAB 128/50 f.4)
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In the course of a brief discussion, it was accepted that we could not disclaim responsibility for British passport holders. But we must seek to ensure that world opinion was fully seized of the problem if a mass movement of population in a state of panic was to be avoided. A Commonwealth or international conference might not provide a wholly appropriate forum for this purpose. But the Commonwealth Secretary General, Mr Arnold Smith, might be moved to urge Commonwealth Governments to consider whether they could contribute to the relocation of the Asians who were to be removed from East Africa; and a suitable resolution by the United Nations might be helpful.