Mr. J. Enoch Powellasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects to publish the letters exchanged between Her Majesty's Government and the Government of Lebanon concerning the presence there of members of Her Majesty's armed forces.
§ Mr. HurdThe exchange of notes between Her Majesty's Government and the Government of Lebanese Republic concerning the deployment of a British contingent to the multinational force in the Lebanon was laid before Parliament on 1 March and published on 2 March—Treaty series No. 9 of 1983: Cmnd. 8823. This exchange of notes will now need to be amended to take account of the agreement of which I informed my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury (Mr. Crouch) on 14 April to station the contingent in Lebanon for a further three months.—[Vol. 40, c. 443.]