§ Mr. Jonathan EvansTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when the Minister for Overseas Development last met her EC colleagues to discuss development issues; and what was decided.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydMy right hon. and noble Friend the Minister for Overseas Development attended the Development Council in Brussels on 25 May. The Council agreed on future work to improve the co-ordination of EC development policies, starting with poverty and health issues. It agreed resolutions on emergency assistance, rehabilitation in some sub-Saharan African countries, South Africa and on human rights, democracy and development. The Council also discussed the situation in a number of specific African countries, the follow-up to the UN Conference on Environment and Development, women in development and population policy.