Mr. Robert HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he received a request to meet Thabo Mbeki, head of the international department of the African National Congress; and what reply he has sent.
§ Mr. WaldegraveA representative of the ANC asked my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in Kuala Lumpur on 22 October if he would meet Mr. Mbeki. He indicated that he was prepared to do so if Mr. Mbeki was willing to agree to the suspension of violence on the basis set out in the negotiating concept of the Commonwealth eminent persons group.