HC Deb 05 May 1969 vol 783 cc4-5W
Mr. Biffen

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many of the countries in receipt of United Kingdom aid are in arrears with their subscriptions to the United Nations Organisation.

Mr. Goronwy Roberts

Eighty-six member States of the United Nations were among the countries which received aid from the United Kingdom in 1968. Of these, at 30th April, 1969, the following 38 were in arrears in respect of some part of their contributions to the regular budget of the United Nations due up to the end of 1968:

Argentina Laos
Bolivia Maldive Islands
Burundi Mexico
Cambodia* Nepal
Cantral African Republic Nicaragua
Nigeria
Chad Pakistan
Chile Panama
Colombia Paraguay
Costa Rica Peru
Dahomey Senegal
Dominican Republic Sierra Leone
Ecuador Southern Yemen
E1 Salvador Togo
Gambia Uganda
Ghana United Arab Republic
Guinea
Haiti Upper Volta
Honduras Uruguay
Iran Venezuela
(* Nominal arrears amounting to eight dollars)