HC Deb 25 March 1959 vol 602 cc121-2W
71. Mr. Rankin

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement on the progress made towards securing agreement on the withdrawal of foreign forces from Korea.

Mr. R. Allan

As my right hon. and learned Friend said on 2nd July last to the hon. Member for Morpeth (Mr. Owen), the Governments concerned declared in a Note handed to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the same date that they were prepared to withdraw the forces operating under the United Nations Command from Korea when the conditions for a lasting settlement laid down by the General Assembly had been fulfilled.

Unfortunately it has not yet been possible to reach agreement on the question of genuinely free elections throughout Korea.

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