HC Deb 14 December 1992 vol 216 c22W
Mr. Michael

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list every visit made(a) to Hargeisa, (b) to any other part of northern Somalia (Republic of Somaliland), (c) Mogadishu and (d) any other part of Somalia outside the Republic of Somaliland by (i) Ministers and (ii) official representatives of the British Government in each of the last 24 months.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

The following is the information requested:

Visits to North-West Somalia: Ministers

  • No Ministers have visited in the last 24 months.

Visits to North-West Somalia: Officials

February 1992 Head of East African Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a member of the British Embassy, Addis Ababa to Hargeisa, Boroma and Berbera.

November 1992 HM Ambassador, Addis Ababa to Hargeisa, Berbera, Sheikh and Burao. Assistant Head of African Department (Equatorial) Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a member of the British Embassy, Addis Ababa to Hargeisa and Berbera.

Visits to rest of Somalia: Ministers

September 1992

  • Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to Mogadishu.
  • Baroness Chalker to Mogadishu and Hoddur.

Visits to rest of Somalia: Officials

August 1992 Member of the British High Commission, Nairobi Mogadishu and Hoddur.

September 1992

  • Officials accompanying Secretary of State to Mogadishu.
  • Officials accompanying Baroness Chalker to Mogadishu and Hoddur.

October 1992

  • Member of the British High Commission, Nairobi, to Mogadishu.

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