HC Deb 19 April 1993 vol 223 cc20-1W
Mr. Winnick

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on Her Majesty's Government's policy towards Iran as long as the death sentence on a British citizen living in the United Kingdom is not withdrawn.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

We remain greatly concerned by the continuing failure of the Iranian authorities to repudiate the incitement to murder Mr. Rushdie and the bounty on him offered by an Iranian organisation. This failure inevitably prevents the establishment of full and friendly relations with Iran.

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