HC Deb 31 October 1984 vol 65 cc1029-30W
Mr. Maclean

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will (a) publish a list of countries which have free trade unions and (b) publish guidelines for British organisations seeking aid from oppressive overseas totalitarian regimes.

Mr. Renton

The list of countries with trade unions which are affiliated to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), which is the internationally accepted basis for defining free trade unions, is as follows.

We have no reason to think that British organisations disposed to seek aid from the kind of regimes referred to would be influenced by guidelines.

  • Antigua
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • Bolivia
  • Botswana
  • Brazil
  • Burkina
  • Canada
  • Central African Republic
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Cyprus
  • Denmark
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • El Salvador
  • Ethiopia
  • Falkland Islands
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • Gambia
  • Federal Republic of Germany
  • Greece
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Guyana
  • Honduras
  • Hong Kong
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Kiribati
  • Korea
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Luxembourg
  • Malagasy Republic
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Malta
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
    • 1030
  • Netherlands Antilles
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Norway
  • Pakistan
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Portugal
  • Puerto Rico
  • St. Helena
  • St. Kitts-Nevis
  • St. Lucia
  • St. Vincent
  • San Marino
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Surinam
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Thailand
  • Trinidad
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Uganda
  • United Kingdom
  • United States of America
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela