HC Deb 19 May 1989 vol 153 c329W
Mr. Atkinson

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the forthcoming CSCE human rights conference in Paris.

Mr. Waldegrave

The Paris meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension (CDH) opens on 30 May and will last four weeks. Its main tasks will be to review human rights cases and situations in CSCE participating states as well as the working of the human rights monitoring mechanism agreed at the Vienna CSCE meeting.