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to make a visit to Australia in order to maintain the valuable dialogue that we now have with the Australians on a wide range of international issues. No decision has yet been made on the timing of such a visit.
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Southern Africa
85. Mr. Pike: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he has any plans to visit southern Africa in 1990.
Mr. Waldegrave: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs has no current plans to do so.
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Albania
Mr. Stern: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he plans to meet representatives of the Government of Albania.
Mr. Waldegrave: No.
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Colombian Amazon
Dr. Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will obtain for his departmental library a copy of the book "The Colombian Amazon: Policies for the Protection of its Indigenous Peoples and their Environment", by Peter Bunyard.
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Angola
Mrs. Ann Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what is his Department's policy towards support for President Mobutu Sese Seko in mediations between the MPLA and UNITA in Angola;
(2) whether he has made any recent representations to the MPLA-PT in Angola concerning any response which it may make to the peace proposals placed before it in October by President Mobutu Sese Seko.
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Mr. Waldegrave: We have consistently stressed the need for a political settlement in Angola. The terms of such a settlement are for the MPLA Government of Angola and UNITA to decide. We support President Mobutu's work as mediator and trust that this will lead to an early end to the fighting and to negotiations without pre-conditions between the two sides.
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Extradition
Mr. Janner: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when Britain will ratify the European convention on extradition.
Mr. Sainsbury: We intend to introduce the necessary Orders in Council under the Extradition Act 1989 during the present Session. Subject to the approval of Parliament, signature and ratification of the convention will then follow.
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Mr. Janner: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether there is currently a prima facie requirement in respect of requests for extradition to the United Kingdom from those countries which have ratified the European convention extradition.
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Mr. Sainsbury: Requests for extradition to the United Kingdom from those countries party to the convention with which we have bilateral extradition treaties must be supported by evidence or particulars sufficient to satisfy the requirements of the relevant treaty.
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EC Grants
Mr. Teddy Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will take steps to require any public bodies receiving grants from the EEC to declare this in the publications of these bodies.
Mr. Maude: Individual departmental chapters of the public expenditure White Paper already refer to any significant receipts from the EC in respect of the department's programme. The Government expect all public bodies to publish details of significant grant receipts from the EC.
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Mrs. Maureen Hicks: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assistance he has given to unaccompanied minors fron Vietnam currently residing in Hong Kong's refugee camps.
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Mr. Maude: The Hong Kong Government are discussing with UNHCR the establishment of special procedures under the comprehensive plan of action for dealing with unaccompanied minors, with the aim of identifying the most humane and appropriate course in each individual case. This might mean repatriation where the child's parents or closest relatives are in Vietnam or resettlement elsewhere where the nearest family ties are
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Ms. Clare Short: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many additional people would qualify for the following benefits if the capital limits were increased to (a) £8,000, where applicable, (b) £10,000, (c) £12,000 or (d) abolished; and what would be the full year cost of each of these changes at current benefit levels (i) income support, (ii) family credit, (iii) National Health Service benefits, (iv) housing benefit, (v) community charge benefit and (vi) the Social Fund.
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Mrs. Gillian Shephard: The estimates are as follows (assuming in each case that the present rules for imputing a weekly income to capital holdings of more than £3,000 are maintained).
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