§ Mr. BennettTo ask the Secretry of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the current armed conflicts in the world, the estimated number of deaths in each and the actions taken by the United Kingdom Government to encourage peace in each conflict.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggEarlier this year the Secretary General of the United Nations, Dr. Boutros-Ghali, told my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs that the United Nations was currently seized of 25 conflicts around the world. Detailed information on all these conflicts is not centrally recorded and could be produced only at disproportionate cost. However, 12 of these conflicts are the object of a United Nations peacekeeping operation to which Britain as a permanent member of the Security Council makes its due contribution. They are: India/Pakistan, Lebanon, Israel/ Syria and Jerusalem, Cyprus, Cambodia, former Yugoslavia, Iran/Kuwait, El Salvador, Western Sahara, Angola, Somalia and Mozambique.