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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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{nvoke the protocol. Neither in Northern GENERAL
Ireland nor in any other part of the United (AMENDMENT) ORDER;
Kingdom is there a situation which meets · . . . r
the criteria laid down for the application ·Baroness STEWART of'
of either protocol. Nor is there any CHURCH asked Her MajestY's Gcn;..,rr,::•~;;~
terrorist organisation operating within ID.ent: · ; · ·· ., · ·
the United· Kingdom which fulfils 'the Whetherthey will make a Staten:i.~~t
requirements· which a national liberation about the Town and Country Planning
movement must meet in order to be entitled General Development (Amendment)
to claim rights U:nder Protocol I .. There is Order 1977. ·
therefore no question of any. of the pro-
visions of either protocol benefiting the
IRA or .any others who may carry out
terrorist activities in peacetime.
· The protocols will not become binding
upon. the United Kingdom unless and
until the signature is ratified. The Govern-
ment intend to move towards ratification
in due course. . Legislation will be required
to implement certain provisions of Proto-
col I, as it was for the Geneva Conventions
themselves. ·
' · Baroness BIRK: My right honourable
friend the Secretaryof State is arranging
for the order to be withdrawn. The
Government will shortly be presenting to
Parliament the response to the Eighth
Report of the Expenditure Committee:
Planning Procedures. He intends to
consider further the provisions of the
general development order in the light of
reactions to that response.
House. adjourned at fo.ur
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