HC Deb 27 January 1954 vol 522 cc237-8W
83. Mr. Hector Hughes

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will invite to an international conference those Icelandic and Norwegian Ministers who are concerned with the outstanding problems affecting the fisheries of the three countries for the purpose of considering, and, if possible, solving, those problems in an amicable way.

Mr. Dodds-Parker

As my hon. Friend informed the hon. and learned Gentleman on 7th December, Her Majesty's Government regard our dispute with Norway about the areas which were the subject of The Hague Court's judgment of 18th December, 1951, as now settled. In the case of Iceland, Her Majesty's Government would be most willing to enter into conference, but the Icelandic Government have so far been unwilling to discuss the fishery limits they have sought to impose.