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22. Mr. Walters

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a further statement on progress towards peace in the middle east.

25. Mr. Soames

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the situation in the middle east.

42. Mr. Bendall

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will now give details of his policy reassessment towards the Arab-Israeli dispute.

18. Mr. Robert Atkins

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether there have been any further developments in Her Majesty's Government's policy towards the conflict in the middle east following the cancellation of the joint Jordanian/PLO delegation visit to Britain in the autumn.

Sir John Farr

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the latest situation in the middle east.

Mr. Renton

I refer my hon. Friends to the reply I gave earlier to my hon. Friends the Members for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Latham), and Leominster (Mr. Temple-Morris).

28. Mr. Andrew MacKay

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when next he intends to seek to visit the middle east.

Mr. Renton

My right hon. and learned Friend is planning to visit a number of states in the Arabian peninsula early in the new year. Details are now being settled.

56. Ms. Clare Short

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make representations to the Israeli Government about the welfare of the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza under the continued occupation.

Mr. Renton

We maintain a regular and frank dialogue with the Israeli Government about conditions in the occupied territories.

67. Mr. Robert C. Brown

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if, in the light of the abortive visit of the joint Jordanian/Palestinian delegation to London and the explicit rejection by the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Baghdad of United Nations resolutions 242 and 338, he will make a statement on his policy towards the Arab-Israeli dispute.

Mr. Renton

The final statement of the PLO central council meeting in Baghdad does not mention United Nations Security Council resolutions 242 and 338. Our policy remains to support realistic moves towards peace negotiations.

83. Mr. Marlow

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the visit of the Minister of State, the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Renton) to the middle east.

Mr. Renton

I visited Syria, Lebanon and Israel from 9 to 16 December. I had useful talks with the governments in each country on bilateral relations and regional and international issues. I also met Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza.