§ 73. Mr. FraserTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on his assessment of developments in Czechoslovakia.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe situation in Czechoslovakia is very fluid. We strongly urge the Czechoslovak authorities to permit the people to exercise their rights under the Helsinki Final Act and to open the way to peaceful political change, as has happened elsewhere in eastern Europe.
§ 114. Mr. AshtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what protests he has made to the Czechoslovakian Government about the use of violence against the two British journalists, Edward Lucas ofThe Independent and cameramen Philip Bye of ITV.
§ Mr. WaldegraveWe protested both to the Czechoslovak ambassador in London and to the Foreign Ministry in Prague on 20 November about this disgraceful incident.