§ Mr. LawrenceTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth. Affairs whether he has raised with the Soviet Foreign Minister the imprisonment since 1978 of Leonid Lubman; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MellorWe regularly make representations to the Soviet authorities on behalf of prisoners of conscience such as Leonid Lubman. We raised his case at the official bilateral talks on human rights in Moscow on 23 June.