HC Deb 21 December 1982 vol 34 cc418-9W
Mr. Sheerman

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to which countries surplus stocks of European Economic Community skimmed milk powder are sent as aid; and if there are any plans to send some of these supplies to relieve famine conditions in Vietnam.

Mr. Neil Marten

This year the European Community has allocated 150,000 tonnes of skimmed milk powder as food aid to the following countries and organisations:

  • Angola
  • Burundi
  • Cape Verde
  • Comores
  • Djibouti
  • Egypt
  • Ecuador
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Grenada
  • Honduras
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Jamaica
  • Lesotho
  • Lebanon
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Morocco
  • Mauritius
  • Mauritania
  • Mozambique
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Pakistan
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Senegal
    • 419
  • Sierra Leone
  • Somalia
  • Sudan
  • Swaziland
  • Tanzania
  • Tunisia
  • Uganda
  • Zimbabwe
  • International Committee of the Red Cross
  • The League of Red Cross Societies
  • Non-Governmental Organisations
  • United Nations Relief and Works Agency
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  • The World Food Programme

There are no proposals before the Council of Ministers to send any food aid to Vietnam.