HC Deb 10 May 1989 vol 152 c467W
61. Mr. David Martin

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the maintaining of progress in establishing human rights in eastern Europe.

70. Mr. Curry

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the Monitoring of progress on the establishment of human rights in eastern Europe.

Mr. Waldegrave

Performance is varied. Hungary and Poland are continuing to take measures to improve human rights and political freedoms. There has been little or no improvement in Bulgaria or Czechoslovakia or the GDR. Romania is, I am sorry to say, in a class of its own.