HC Deb 26 October 1992 vol 212 c422W
Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will grant funding from his Department to the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages.

Mr. Garel-Jones

We have no intention of doing so at the present time.

Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy to make representations to the Council of Ministers to enable the European charter on regional or minority languages adopted by the Standing Conference of European Regional and Local Authorities to become adopted as a European convention.

Mr. Garel-Jones

The Committee of Ministers has already taken the decision to adopt the European charter on regional or minority languages as a convention. It will be open for signature from 5 November 1992.

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