HC Deb 18 March 1991 vol 188 c1W
Mr. Atkinson

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the status of the recognition and diplomatic representation currently accorded to each of the Soviet republics.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

We do not recognise the individual Soviet republics as states. The question of diplomatic relations, therefore, does not arise.

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