§ 5. Mr. G. Campbellasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the statement on 23rd October by the United Kingdom representative on the United Nations Committee on Colonialism referring to double standards was made with the authority of Her Majesty's Government.
§ Mr. Goronwy RobertsYes.
§ Mr. CampbellDo not these words have a familiar ring? Does not the Minister recognise them as having been used by my right hon. Friend the Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Sir Alec Douglas-Home) in a penetrating analysis of attitudes to colonialism during a speech nearly six years ago at Berwick-on-Tweed? Does the Foreign Secretary now agree?
§ Mr. RobertsThere are many things in that speech with which one could not possibly agree if one were wholeheartedly in favour of the United Nations. As for the impartial deployment of petitions on various questions which come before the Committee of 24, on 23rd October the United Kingdom representative expressed not only a party view but, I think, the commonsense view of all the people of this country and of every other country which is a member of the United Nations.