§ Lord Aveburyasked Her Majesty's Government:
What initiatives the Chairman-in-Office of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe took during 1995 to persuade the Turkish authorities to comply with their obligations under paragraph 36 of the code of conduct on politico-military aspects of security of the Budapest Declaration of December 1994 in dealing with the Kurdish armed opposition.
§ Lord CheshamThe OSCE Chairman-in-Office did not, we understand, raise with Turkey her obligation under the code of conduct. The wider issues of Turkey's human rights obligations and the Turkish operation against the Kurds in Iraq have been raised in the OSCE Permanent Council by a number of OSCE states.