HC Deb 23 March 1978 vol 946 c658W
Mr. Warren

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is Her Majesty's Government's policy towards the proposal before the United Nation's Space Committee concerning proposals to introduce direct satellite broadcasting.

Mr. Judd

Proposals on the formulation of principles governing direct television broadcasting by satellite are being debated in the Legal Sub-Committee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, which is currently meeting in Geneva. Her Majesty's Government are continuing to play an active and constructive role in the discussions on this subject, and in this context attach great importance to the free dissemination of information across frontiers and to the right of the individual to receive and impart it.

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