HC Deb 01 December 1969 vol 792 cc196-7W
79. Mr. Faulds

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on Her Majesty's Government's policy regarding persons in Southern Rhodesia responsible for the death of freedom fighters after their capture.

Mr. Foley

We deplore any acts which conflict with universally accepted humanitarian principles, but in the present circumstances of Rhodesia there is no effective action that Her Majesty's Government can take in individual cases of injustice.

80. Mr. Faulds

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on Her Majesty's Government's policy regarding persons in Southern Rhodesia responsible for the death of Tangwena tribesmen as a result of forcible removal from their homeland.

Mr. Foley

I would refer my hon. Friend to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth, West (Mr. Judd) on 13th October. So far as I am aware, no Tangwena tribesman has died as a result of the evictions to which the Question refers.—[Vol. 788, c. 3.]

81. Mr. Hooley

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which members of the United Nations have explicitly informed the organisation that they are not prepared to accept on their territory a United Nations sanctions inspectorate to supervise the application of mandatory sanctions against Rhodesia.

Mr. Foley

So far as Her Majesty's Government are aware, no formal proposal for the establishment of such an inspectorate has been made. The question, therefore, does not arise.

Mr. Bruce-Gardyne

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what study he has given to the fact that the official Canadian estimate of the value of Canadian exports to South Africa in 1968 exceeded the official South African estimate of South African imports from Canada by 230 per cent., and the resulting evidence of Canadian trade with Rhodesia; what representations he has made to the Canadian Government; and with what result.

Mr. Foley

The hon. Member seems to have got his figures wrong. The official Canadian figure of the value of Canadian exports to South Africa in 1968 exceeds the official South African figure by only 1.47 per cent., a difference which is by no means abnormal in international trade statistics.