HC Deb 30 November 1990 vol 181 c525W
Mr. Pawsey

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth of 21 November,Official Report, column 252, what representations have been or will be made to the Soviet Union about its now admitted responsibility for the Katyn massacres.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

British embassy officials in Moscow have, on instructions, twice asked the Soviet authorities if legal proceedings will be instituted against General Soprunenko, a former Red Army officer who has been implicated in the Katyn massacre. They have received no substantive reply yet.