HC Deb 11 February 2000 vol 344 cc304-5W
Mr. Streeter

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list the countries which receive British bilateral aid whose Governments are not elected by way of universal suffrage. [109203]

Clare Short

Information on universal suffrage is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Countries receiving UK bilateral assistance and not explicitly described as having universal adult suffrage (from The International Directory of Government 1999)

  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Angola
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bhutan
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Brunei
  • Burma
  • Cayman Islands
  • Chile
  • China
  • Comoros
  • Congo
  • Congo (Democratic Republic)
  • Cuba
  • Ecuador
  • Eritrea
  • Ethiopia
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Gibraltar
  • Hong Kong
  • Indonesia
  • Iraq
  • Kazakhstan
  • Korea ROK (South)
  • Moldova
  • Nepal
  • Nigeria
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Rwanda
  • Serbia and Montenegro (including Kosovo)
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Somalia
  • Sri Lanka
  • St. Helena and Dependencies
  • States of ex-Yugoslavia
  • Sudan
  • Swaziland
  • Tajikistan
  • Thailand
  • Togo
  • Tunisia
  • Turkmenistan
  • Turkey
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Uganda
  • Uzbekistan
  • West Bank and Gaza
  • Windward Islands
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe.

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