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35	Foreign affairs: King Leka I of the Albanians
36	Foreign affairs: Albania
37	Foreign Affairs: Romania
38	Horn of Africa Council
39	Horn of Africa Council
40	Horn of Africa Council
41	Horn of Africa Council
42	Horn of Africa Council
43	Visits abroad
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The Papers of Julian Amery

Title	Horn of Africa Council
Reference	AMEJ 1/10/39 (former reference: Box 35)
Covering Dates	Jul 1982-Jun 1986 (The majority of folios date from 1983–85.)
Extent and Medium	2 files

Content and context

Correspondence and papers from the council (of which JA was president), particularly correspondence with Louis FitzGibbon (council secretary) on general council business. Other correspondents include: Ewen Fergusson [Deputy Under-Secretary of State (Middle East and Africa), Foreign and Commonwealth Office] on aid to Ethiopia and Sudan; Sir Donald Hawley; Tom Normanton; John Browne; James Johnson (2); Sir Bernard Braine; Cranley Onslow, Minister of State, Foreign Office, on concerns about aid to Ethiopia reaching the right people; Timothy Raison, Minister for Overseas Development, on aid to Somalia and Zimbabwe.

Also includes reports by FitzGibbon on political missions to the German Bundestag and European Parliament, the international conference in Sudan on Islamic law, 1984, and the Soviet influence behind the tripartite pact of Aden [the alliance between Libya, Ethiopia and South Yemen] and a paper on strategic areas in the Red Sea.

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File 1 closed under Cabinet Office advice.

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