§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give the reasons for the vote of the United Kingdom in the United Nations General Assembly on 14th December 1977 concerning mandatory economic sanctions against South Africa.
§ Mr. RowlandsWe voted against, together with France, West Germany, the USA and some other Western countries, because we do not agree that the far-reaching economic measures which the resolution calls for would produce the changes in South Africa which we all wish to see.
§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give the reasons for the vote of the United Kingdom in the United Nations General Assembly Fourth Committee on the proposal for a mandatory oil embargo against South Africa to prevent oil supplies reaching Rhodesia.
§ Mr. RowlandsThe United Kingdom abstained in the Fourth Committee in the vote on the draft resolution which requested the Security Council to impose a mandatory oil embargo against South Africa, because such an embargo would not help the Anglo-US proposals for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia.