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22. Mr. Brocklebank-Fowler

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on Rhodesia.

24. Mr. Michael Latham

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will make a statement on Rhodesia.

25. Mr. Townsend

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the future of Rhodesia.

Dr. Owen:

I would refer hon. Members to the answer I gave earlier this afternoon to my hon. Friend the Member for Derby. North (Mr. Whitehead).

29. Mr. Grocott

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many non-voting black Africans have been executed in Southern Rhodesia since 1974.

Mr. Rowlands:

I understand that, between 1968 and 1975, 60 Africans were executed by the regime, and that since April 1975, when the regime stopped publishing details of executions, over 100 Africans have been executed. Those executed or under sentence of death are presumed to be Africans denied the right to vote.

Mr. Wall

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs who decided that the delegation from the Zimbabwe United People's Organisation was not to meet Lord Carver in Salisbury; and what were the grounds on which this decision was made.

Mr. Rowlands:

Lord Carver confined himself, on his first visit to Salisbury, to meeting representatives of the principal Nationalist parties resident there and the regime. The team of British officials concerned with the constitutional aspects of the settlement proposals met representatives of ZUPO in Salisbury last weekend.

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