HC Deb 13 January 1989 vol 144 cc762-3W
Mr. Amess

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) if he will make representations to the Soviet authorities making it a condition of the United Kingdom's support for the proposal of a human rights conference in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1989 that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics make a full statement on the fate of Mr. Raoul Wallenberg;

(2) if he will make it his policy to raise the case of Mr. Raoul Wallenberg at the proposed human rights conference in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1989; and if he will make a statement;

(3) if he will seek to obtain from the Government of the United States such information as is in their possession about Mr. Raoul Wallenberg; and if he will make a statement;

(4) what information he has of the occasions when the Government of the United States of America raised the case of Mr. Raoul Wallenberg with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; and if he will make a statement;

(5) if he proposes to raise further the case of Mr. Raoul Wallenberg at the CSCE; and if he will make a statement;

(6) if he will make further representations to the Government of Sweden offering assistance from Her Majesty's Government in Sweden's efforts to obtain a full statement from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics about the fate of Mr. Raoul Wallenberg; and if he will make a statement;

(7) if he will make representations to the Swedish Government to request that their official publications about Mr. Raoul Wallenberg are translated into the English language; and if he will make a statement.

(8) if he will seek to obtain the hearings and reports from United States House of Representatives on House joint resolution 220 of the 97th Congress, session one; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Eggar

We fully share the concerns of the Member for Basildon (Mr. Amess) and the Minister of State my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, West (Mr. Waldegrave). will writing shortly.

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