E/CN.4/1995/78 page 5 organizations and city officials in Washington, New York and Atlanta. The report of that mission is available to the Commission in document E/CN.4/1995/78/Add.1. 2. Mission to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 13. By letter of 30 September, the United Kingdom Government informed the Special Rapporteur that it was agreeable to a visit by him during the period 5-16 December. When preparations for this mission had already been completed, the Centre for Human Rights had to advise the Special Rapporteur, on 29 November, that his mission could not take place. Between 29 November and 5 December, the Centre for Human Rights made several unsuccessful attempts to obtain funding. 14. On 6 December, the United Kingdom Government was informed that the mission had been postponed because of financial problems. The Special Rapporteur wishes to express his regrets to the United Kingdom Government and to note that an incident of this kind shows the urgency of making adequate human, material and financial resources available to him if the Commission wishes the mandate entrusted to him to be carried out efficiently. 15. The Special Rapporteur hopes that he will be given a further opportunity to visit the United Kingdom, bearing in mind the interest which the United Kingdom authorities and numerous institutions and organizations have already shown in such a mission and the disappointment caused by its postponement. 3. Mission to Germany 16. By note of 18 October 1994, the Government of Germany accepted the Special Rapporteur’s offer to visit Germany and proposed that that mission should take place after 9 January 1995. Because of his prior commitments (including the mission to the United Kingdom, which unfortunately did not take place and the technical constraints facing the Centre for Human Rights during the proposed period - namely, the preparations for the fifty-first session of the Commission on Human Rights - the Special Rapporteur suggested that the mission to Germany should be postponed until mid-March 1995. The Special Rapporteur will therefore take advantage of his presence in Geneva to consider arrangements for that visit with the German authorities. 4. Mission to Brazil 17. By letter of 11 November 1994, the Government of Brazil expressed its intention to receive the Special Rapporteur in Brazil at a date to be agreed. Preparations for this mission will be initiated during the fifty-first session of the Commission after the Special Rapporteur has talked with the representatives of Brazil. 5. Mission to France 18. During a discussion with the Special Rapporteur in June 1994, the representatives of France expressed the wish that he should postpone his