HC Deb 04 May 1989 vol 152 c189W
Mr. Jack

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs at what conferences dealing with Third-world debt reduction his Department has been represented in 1988 and 1989.

Mrs. Chalker

The FCO has been represented at international conferences which discussed debt reduction at UNCTAD in September 1988, the IMF and IBRD annual meetings in Berlin in September 1988 and the spring meetings of the IMF and IBRD in April this year. It has also been represented at a variety of meetings organised by research, academic and private sector groups.