§ 77. Mr. CartwrightTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps the Government are taking to encourage the moves towards democracy amongst the member nations of the Warsaw pact.
§ Mr. MaudeWe are actively considering ways in which we can help the countries of eastern Europe in this field. Groups of Hungarian and Polish politicians have already participated in successful seminars on the United Kingdom parliamentary system organised by the Great Britain/East Europe Centre. Budding politicians from Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia and the GDR will attend similar seminars in the coming months to look at our political and parliamentary system in order to help them organise their parties and electoral campaigns.
In addition, the IPU is sending factfinding missions to these four countries to determine how the IPU could be of assistance in the parliamentary field.