§ Mr. Hendersonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress has been made in the current year in persuading the Soviet Union to comply with its international obligations to eliminate transmissions which interfere with United Kingdom and international radio communications.
§ Mr. OnslowThe Soviet Union has continued to jam the BBC Russian and Polish services and other foreign radio broadcasts, in contravention of article 35 of the Convention of the International Telecommunication Union and of its commitment in the CSCE Final Act to
facilitate the freer and wider dissemination of information of all kinds.The Government have protested on a number of occasions, both bilaterally to the Soviet and Polish Governments and at the CSCE review meeting at Madrid, but have received no satisfactory reply.