HC Deb 19 July 1994 vol 247 c130W
Mr. Worthington

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the occasions since 1979 when a Foreign Secretary made a statement to the House on matters to do with Africa.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

The information requested as recorded in the JUSTIS database is:

  1. (1) 9 and 12 July 1984: Statements (further to that of the Home Secretary on 6 July) about the abduction of Mr. Umaru Dikko, the Nigerian ex-Minister on 5 July and subsequent developments to date.
  2. (2) 19 May 1986: Statement on South African incursions into Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

There have additionally been a number of other general statements in which reference to Africa has been made.