HC Deb 15 December 1993 vol 234 cc664-5W
Mr. Worthington

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what visits have been made by Foreign Office staff to Somalia in the current year; where they went; and what were the lessons from their visits.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

Foreign Office staff from London, the British embassy in Addis Ababa and the British High Commission in Nairobi have made a total of 15 visits to Somalia this year. They visited Mogadishu, Kismayo, Baidoa, Hargeisa, Belet Huen, Berbera and Bossasso. The visits were made in order to assess the humanitarian and political situation on the ground.