HC Deb 28 July 1989 vol 157 c1169W
Rev. Martyn Smyth

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will raise with the Soviet authorities the case of George Samoilovich, currently undergoing medical treatment in the United Kingdom, whose wife and son are being refused exit visas to join him.

Mr. Waldegrave

We have underlined to the Soviet authorities on numerous occasions the urgent need to grant exit visas to the wife and son of George Samoilovich—most recently when I saw the Soviet ambassador on 25 July. We will not let up until the family is reunited outside the Soviet Union.

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