Mr. Alan Lee Williamsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will make available the working documents amplifying the Anglo-American proposals for a Rhodesian settlement which he circulated to the parties to the dispute in February of the current year.
§ Dr. OwenI have today made arrangements for the working documents, which were circulated to the Patriotic Front, the United African National Council, the African National Council (Sithole) and the Rhodesian Front at the beginning of February this year, to be placed in the Library of the House In keeping with the policy of greater disclosure of departmental documents have also taken steps to make them publicly available.
The documents are:
- (a) the Transitional Period;
- (b) The Independence Constitution;
- (c) The Constitution of Zimbabwe; and
- (d) Concept for a United Nations Zimbabwe Force.
Paper (b) was in effect an introduction to paper (c).
§ Mr. Leeasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will consider the making of an exgratia payment of compensation to the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole for the period of years that he spent in unlawful detention at the hands of the illegal Rhodesian regime, but conditional upon Mr. Sithole's resigning from the newly constituted illegal governing council in Rhodesia.
§ Mr. RowlandsIt is not the Government's policy to accept responsibility for the actions of the illegal regime.
§ Mr. Leeasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many persons are now known by Her Majesty's Government to have been released from detention by the illegal regime in Rhodesia during the last six months; what periods of detention are known to have been served by these persons and what representations have been 208W made to the illegal regime regarding compensation for their illegal detention.
§ Mr. RowlandsAccording to the statement issued in Salisbury on 2nd May, over 700 detainees have been released, dividual cases. Nor have we discussed tion about the terms of detention in individual case. Nor have we discussed compensation with the regime.