HC Deb 22 November 1990 vol 181 cc200-1W
Ms. Quin

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his Department's policy towards the sending of gifts by friends and relatives to hostages in Iraq.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

We are in touch with the British Red Cross Society, which hopes to arrange for Red Cross parcels to be sent by families in the United Kingdom to the detainees in Iraq. Our embassy in Baghdad has been sending local comfort parcels to detainees in Iraq and these are beginning to get through. The United Kingdom has suspended postal services to Iraq in order to implement sanctions imposed by UN Security Council resolution 661.

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