§ Lord Brockwayasked Her Majesty's Government:
What has been their attitude at the United Nations Security Council to the Nicaraguan complaint of the trade embargo imposed by the United States administration.
§ The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Young)We considered the Nicaraguan recourse to the United Nations Security Council unlikely to contribute towards the achievement of a comprehensive negotiated settlement of regional tensions, which is our main objective in the area. We instructed the United Kingdom representative to abstain on certain paragraphs which we considered too widely drawn.