Vladimir and Karmela Raiz

HC Deb 20 October 1989 vol 158 c266W

Mr. John Marshall

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations have been made to the Russian authorities about their continued failure to grant an exit visa to Vladimir and Karmela Raiz of Vilnius.

Mr. Waldegrave

We take every opportunity to press the Soviet authorities about Vladimir and Karmela Raiz. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs raised this case most recently when he met Mr. Shevardnadze in New York on 29 September. We shall maintain our pressure until this case is satisfactorily resolved.