§ Mr. SternTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on his response to the recent elections in Bulgaria.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe vote was generally free and fair, although there was a certain amount of intimidation and742W violence during the campaign. Both observers and Bulgaria's own electoral commission have cast doubts on some individual results. We shall now need to assess the policies and practices of the new Government and hope that their commitment to reform will be shown to be real.