HL Deb 22 July 1985 vol 466 c1089WA
Lord Shinwell

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether the United Nations have considered and condemned the Soviet Union for its invasion of Afghanistan and to what effect.

Baroness Young

At the United Nations General Assembly in November 1984 a record majority called for the immediate withdrawal of the Soviet army, which continues to occupy Afghanistan in contravention of the United Nations Charter. Similar resolutions have been passed each year since the Soviet invasion but regrettably the Soviet Union have not yet complied with them. We look to them to reconsider.

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