HC Deb 02 June 1981 vol 5 cc301-2W
Mr. Miscampbell

asked the Lord Privy Seal what was the outcome of the European Community Development Council in Luxembourg on 28 April.

Mr. Neil Marten

The Council adopted a resolution on world hunger, reaffirming its determination that the Community should contribute actively to the resolution of the problem. The Council agreed the Community's food aid programme for 1981 and discussed a draft framework regulation on food aid policy and management. It also agreed to undertake periodic evaluations of Community aid programmes. There were exchanges of views on North-South issues, on the forthcoming Paris conference on the least developed countries, and on Community aid to refugees, in the light of the outcome of the recent United Nations conference on assistance to African refugees.