HC Deb 25 January 1990 vol 165 cc798-9W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what new regulations there are on the exclusion zones to Argentine shipping and aircraft figures around the Falkland Islands.

Mr. Sainsbury

In the joint statement issued after the Anglo-Argentine talks in Madrid last October, a copy of which, as I stated in my reply of 20 October to my right hon. Friend, the Member for Guildford (Mr. Howell), was placed in the Library of the House, it was announced that two small changes to the Falkland Islands protection zone would be made:

  1. (a) he limits of the protection zone would be aligned with that of the Falkland Islands Interim Conservation and Management Zone, reducing its size slightly in the South West corner;
  2. (b) the requirement that Argentine merchant shipping should not enter the protection zone without prior agreement would be dispensed with.

These changes subsequently came into effect on I December and 1 January respectively.

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