Resistencia Nacional Mocambica

HC Deb 12 April 1988 vol 131 cc28-9W

Mr. Hunter

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if since 1983 he has had any meetings with, or made approaches to, or received approaches from representatives of the Resistencia Nacional Mocambica movement or intermediary spokesmen of that movement.

Mrs. Chalker

No direct meetings have taken place. A number of telephone contacts have occurred for humanitarian purposes over the capture of British citizens.

Mr. Hunter

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is her Majesty's Government's policy towards the Resistencia Nacional Mocambica.

Mrs. Chalker

We do not recognise RENAMO. We deplore RENAMO's terrorist activities in Mozambique and neighbouring countries, with whose Governments we have full diplomatic relations.