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246. Telegram 33749 From the Department of State to the Embassy in Uganda

lt position. We desire to be responsive to overtures of friendship. At same time we avoid direct involvement in primarily African issues and in actions concerning security of African states. We have sought to avoid involvement in secession problems (Nigerian civil war and southern Sudan) which plague African states and we have respected Africansʼ opposition to any possible break up of a fellow African nation. Moreover we are restrained by our own laws and our limited resources from inauguration of new military assistance programs or even, since congressional amendment last year, from offering …

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1971-02-27
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–5, Part 1, Documents on Sub-Saharan Africa, 1969–1972
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve05p1/d246
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76ve05p1/d246`

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246. Telegram 33749 From the Department of State to the Embassy in Uganda. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1971. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76ve05p1/d246.