§ Mr. Stanbrookasked the Lord Privy Seal if he will give the nature, amount and source of the unresolved claims by the United States of America against Albania which are known to Her Majesty's Government as joint trustee for the Albanian gold held by the United Kingdom.
§ Sir Ian GilmourI understand that there are certain American claims against Albania for compensation for property nationalised in the late 1940s. It would not be appropriate to go into further details of claims which principally concern the American Government.
The United Kingdom itself holds no Albanian gold. The gold provisionally allocated to Albania by the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold—on which the British, French and United States Governments are represented—is held in the Bank of England to the account of the commission.