HC Deb 13 March 1989 vol 149 cc25-6W
Mr. Latham

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will meet the Secretary General of the Arab League to ask him to press member states and organisations to repudiate the statement on 5 March by Ahmad Jibril, secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command, threatening to murder Mr. Salman Rushdie.

Mr. Waldegrave

We condemn threats to murder Mr. Rushdie from any source, and welcome all statements by other states and organisations which repudiate such threats.

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