§ Mr. Hastingsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will list the foreign regimes recognised de facto by Her Majesty's Government since the last war.
§ Mr. MulleyBearing in mind thatde facto recognition is in most cases to be implied from dealings with the Government concerned for the purposes of transacting the ordinary business of State, the production of such a list would require an examination of every case in which there had been a change of regime not resulting from normal constitutional processes in any foreign State and, apart from the rare cases in which de facto recognition had been expressly accorded, to consider whether the actions of Her Majesty's Government had constituted de factor recognition or not. In view of the number of changes in régime since 1945 and the varied circumstances and complicated legal issues involved the production of such a list would involve lengthy research and I regret, therefore, that I cannot supply the information requested.