§ 36. Mr. Kenneth Lewisasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what discussions he has had with the Governments of Australia and New Zealand following the United States bombing in Vietnam.
§ Mr. M. StewartI presume that the hon. Gentleman is referring to the bombing attacks on the oil storage facilities at Hanoi and Haiphong. At that moment I was, of course, taking part in discussions with several Governments including the Governments of Australia and New Zealand, in Canberra, I have not been involved in any discussions with the Australian and New Zealand Governments since then.
§ 41. Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why he will not take steps to bring before the United Nations Security Council as a threat to world peace the bombing by the United States forces of areas in the vicinity of Hanoi and Haiphong.
§ Mr. M. StewartThe Security Council is already seized of the question and has been informed by the United States Government of the bombing of the oil storage depots at Hanoi and Haiphong. It is for the Council to determine under Article 39 of the Charter whether or not there has been a threat to international peace.
§ 69. Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will publish the evidence in his possession suggesting that an extension of the period during which bombing in Vietnam ceased last Christmas would have led to negotiations; and if he will state the sources of such evidence.
§ Mr. M. StewartI have no such evidence in my possession.
§ 71. Mr. Boyd-Carpenterasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what representations he has made to the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics about the supply of arms by that Government to the Government of North Vietnam for use against Australian and United States troops.
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§ Mr. M. StewartIt would serve no useful purpose to make special representations to the Soviet Government. They are well aware of our views on this subject.
§ 75. Mr. Will Griffithsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will publish a White Paper setting out the evidence of atrocities committed in the Vietnam war.
§ Mr. George ThomsonNo.
§ Mr. Frank Allaunasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will dissociate Her Majesty's Government from support for United States military policy in Vietnam on the grounds that the United States Government is, by its use of napalm, breaking the genocide agreement.
§ Mr. M. StewartNo.
§ 67. Mr. Hugh Jenkinsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what information he has received from the International Control Commission on how many children have been killed, accidentally or otherwise, by attacks from the air in Vietnam, North or South, how many seriously but not fatally burned, and how many mutilated in other ways.
§ Mr. George ThomsonNone.
The International Control Commission have no facilities for assembling statistics of children suffering as a result of the war. The South Vietnamese Government's reports to the I.C.C. on Viet Cong acts of terrorism, etc., are published, but these give no overall figures for child casualties.