§ Mr. Campbellasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish in the Official Report as much information as is in his possession about Mr. Raoul Wallenberg; when was the last time he made representations to the Government of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics about him; if he has any plans to make representations in the future; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. RentonWe have no firm evidence of what happened to Mr. Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat, after his arrest by Soviet troops in Budapest in 1945. In 1957, Mr. Gromyko, the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, stated that Mr. Wallenberg had died in prison in the Soviet Union 261W in 1947. There have, however, been a number of reports since then from former inmates of Soviet prisons suggesting that Mr. Wallenberg is still alive.
We have raised the case of Raoul Wallenberg with the Soviet authorities on several occasions in the past. My hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, Pentlands (Mr. Rifkind) last did so when he met the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr. Kornienko, in March 1984. While decisions to press for more information from the Soviet Union are in the first instance from the Swedish Government, we remain ready to assist them in efforts to establish with greater certainty what has happened to Mr. Wallenberg.