HC Deb 05 June 1967 vol 747 c107W
Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the Government's basic conditions necessary for affording recognition of a foreign Government enjoys with a reasonable prospect of permanence, the obedience of the mass of the population and the effective control of the greater part of the territory of the State concerned, why Her Majesty's Government will not, on these conditions, afford recognition to the Government of the German Democratic Republic.

Mr. George Thomson

For reasons set out in my reply of 7th November 1966 to the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Northwich (Sir J. Foster), the question whether the East German authorities meet the basic conditions for recognition as a Government does not arise.—[Vol. 735, c.204.]