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This Ministry of Defence file, released through The National Archives and published by The Black Vault, holds the MOD's 2002 handling of Dr David Clarke's requests for UFO documents under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information. It includes the MOD's 9 December 2002 reply, which covered reports from 1976, 1980, 1993 and 1996 and charged £260. It also contains internal emails and file requisitions, plus Foreign Office and United Nations papers from 1978 on Grenada's proposal for UFO research.
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... ,... _.P ' ,.., . -.. '· ~ - A UK AIMS To oppose the establishment of any such agency. B POINTS TO K~E 2. The British delegation does not think that the establish- ment of an agency for research into unidentified flying objects is appropriate to the functions of the United Nations·. It considers that the exi.<tence of such an agency under UN auspices would be an unjustifiable drain on UN resources which could be better deployed elsewhere. C TACTICS 3. Hopefully a confrontation with the representative of Grenada can be avoided, but the UK shouln not hesitate to make its views known .as and when appropriate. Y'm should seek whatever support y~u can pqrticul~rly among the Nine. BACKGROUND L~. At last year•s UN General Assembly, th8 Grenadan . delegation, with the full support of Premier Gairy, sought to establish an ad hoc working group of the UN to evaluate UFO reports. FCO I1insi ters expressed the view th:Jt to set up any such body would r~duce the credibility of the UN; accordingly th~ UK delegation was instructed to oppose. In the event, no vote was taken on the Grenadan Resolution; as a co:npromise, the General Assembly "studied the t·ext 11 and re.::;.uested the Secretary.,-General to transmit it 11 to ·states members of the UN and to interested specialised agencies so that they might communicate their views to the Secretary- General ...
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