§ Mr. John MarshallTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement about the Government's representations on behalf of refuseniks.
§ Mr. WaldegraveWe continue to take every opportunity to press the Soviet authorities both about individual refusenik cases, and on the need for new and effective legislation which will make the refusenik problem a thing of the past.
§ Mr. John MarshallTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations have been made to the Russian authorities about the case of Norbet and Natasha Magazanik and their daughter Olga and son Alexander of Moscow.
§ Mr. WaldegraveWe take every opportunity to press the Soviet authorities on individual refusenik cases such as the Magazanik family. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs raised this case most recently with Mr. Shevardnadze in New York on 29 September. We shall maintain our pressure until this case is satisfactorily resolved.
§ Mr. John MarshallTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations have been made to the Russian authorities about the case of Alexander and Yelena Rappoport and his son Vladimir of Moscow.
§ Mr. WaldegraveWe take every opportunity to press the Soviet authorities on individual cases such as 487W Alexander and Elena Rappoport. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs raised this case most recently when he met Mr. Shevardnadze in New York on 29 September. We shall maintain our pressure until this case is satisfactorily resolved.
§ Mr. John MarshallTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1)what representations have been made to the Russian authorities about the case of Irina Tiomkinal and her son Ilya and her mother, of Moscow;
(2) what representations have been made to the Russian authorities about the case of Roman and Ludmilla Friedman and their sons Igor and Andre of Moscow;
(3) what representations have been made to the Russian authorities about the case of Yakov Grinberg and Basya Berelisovna and their daughter Diana and son Lev of Moscow.
(4) what representations have been made to the Russian authorities about the case of Semion and Lida Akselrod and their sons Boris, Benjamin and David of Leningrad.
§ Mr. WaldegraveWe have not previously raised these particular cases with the Soviet authorities but we will be happy to do so if the hon. Member will provide the necessary details about each case.