§ 88. Mr. WallaceTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will meet the chairman of the World bank to discuss the possibility of writing off debts of developing countries in return for guarantees about the protection of areas of tropical rain forest.
§ Mr. Chris PattenI hope to meet the president of the World Bank in 1989 and to discuss the bank's increasing concern with environmental issues, including the protection of areas of tropical rain forest. I do not have specific plans to discuss the introduction of any direct linkage between the protection of rain forests and the wider question of measures to deal with developing countries' debt difficulties.