§ 57. Mr. Lawrenceasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he is satisfied that progress is being made at the Madrid review conference on the issue of cultural and educational rights of minority nationalities in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
§ Mr. RifkindThere is a broad measure of agreement at the conference on what any concluding document 391W should say in the fields of culture and education. It is not intended to make a specific reference to the interests of national minorities in this context, since this point is already covered in the Helsinki final act. However, we expect there to be a reference elsewhere to the rights of persons belonging to such minorities subject to agreement on suitable language.