HC Deb 23 November 1999 vol 339 cc67-8W
Dr. Tonge

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will make a statement on the conditions of East Timorese living in militia-controlled West Timor refugee camps. [99246]

Clare Short

Of the estimated 250,000 who left East Timor after the consultation on independence, only

Ministerial colleagues, both formally and informally, to discuss trade matters. On 10 November I chaired the fifth meeting of the Inter Departmental Working Group on Development, which a number of colleagues attended. The agenda included preparations for the WTO Ministerial Meeting. I will be speaking at a public Symposium in Seattle prior to the Ministerial Meeting, and will be in regular contact with my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister for the Environment while we are in Seattle.