HL Deb 28 February 1996 vol 569 c99WA
Lord Avebury

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether, when the Prime Minister of Dominica, Mr. Eddison James saw the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Malcolm Rifkind, MP on 18th December 1995, it was a chance meeting which had not been pre-arranged and that it had not been recorded in the Foreign Secretary's diary; and whether they will give the approximate time and duration of the meeting.

Baroness Chalker of Wallasey:

The meeting was scheduled at short notice during a visit Mr. James was paying to London with the Prime Ministers of St. Lucia and St. Vincent. The meeting took place in the mid-afternoon and lasted approximately 15 minutes.