HC Deb 30 January 1995 vol 253 c492W
Mr. Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what action has been taken by his Department to further progress on the United Nations referendum on the future of the Western Sahara.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

As a member of the UN Security Council group of Friends of the Western Sahara, we have supported the efforts of the UN Secretary-General to bring about a resolution of the conflict in the Western Sahara. We have helped to broker various Security Council resolutions on the subject. Until September 1993, the United Kingdom contributed military personnel to the mission for a referendum in the Western Sahara.