§ 49. Mr. John MarshallTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations have been made to the USSR about the difficulties of refuseniks.
§ Mr. WaldegraveWe press the Soviet authorities regularly on individual refusenik cases and of the wider need for institutionalised reform. Over the last year at least 68 long-term refuseniks about whom we have made representations have been allowed to leave the Soviet Union.