§ Mr. Maddenasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will raise in the United Nations Commission on Human Rights the potential violation of human rights in Chile represented by the 2,500 people missing without explanation in that country.
§ Mr. Rowlands:The Government have frequently raised this aspect of human rights violations in Chile in the Human Rights Commission. The United Kingdom co-sponsored resolutions at the 32nd and 33rd session of the Commission, which extended the mandate of the Ad Hoc Working Group and called upon the Chilean authorities to put an end to the inadmissible practice of secret arrests and subsequent disappearances of persons whose detention is systematically denied 277W or never acknowledged. The Working Group is to submit a report to the General Assembly at its next session this autumn.