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admitted using intimidation against un- compliant colleagues who would not take bribe retainers.
Zaire
26. Mr. Banks asked the Secretary of
• State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he intends to visit Zaire during his forthcoming tour of Southern Africa. Dr. Owen: I would refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave earlier today to the hon. Member for Louth (Mr. Brotherton).
Falkland Islands
28. Mr. Farr asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if and when he intends to declare, on behalf of the people of the Falkland Islands, a 200-mile wide exclusive terri- torial zone around their coastline.
Mr. Rowlands: The Government do not regard the establishment of exclusive economic zones as permissible under pre- sent international law.
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34. Mr. David James asked the Secre- tary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs whether the Government,. in their discussions with the Argentine Government about the Falkland Islands, have taken into account allegations of torture and police terror that have been made by the Argentine Commission for Human Rights, including the statement that the Argentine police are more effica- cious than the Chilean secret police.
Mr. Rowlands: Her Majesty's Govern- ment continue to be deeply concerned about abuses of human rights wherever they occur and have stressed their concern to the Government of Argentina.
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Angola (British Subjects)
30. Mr. Maudling asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has. recently made to the authorities in Angola about the British subjects imprisoned
there for no crime known to international law.
Mr. Rowlands: In the absence of diplomatic relations, none. But we have made representations about their welfare to the Angolan Mission at the United
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Nations, and to a senior official of the Angolan Ministry of External Affairs who was in London recently. We are also utilising other avenues of communication.
United States of America ··
Mr. Robin F. Cook asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what report he has received from the British Embassy to the United States of America following the recent visit Committee of the Expenditure Com- of the Defence and External Affairs Sub-
mittee; and if he will make a statement.
The British
Dr. Owen: The Defence and External Affairs Sub-Committee of the Expenditure Committee visited Washington from 17th June to 23rd June 1976. Embassy in Washington reported to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the evidence submitted to the Sub-Committee during their visit to Washington.
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
Direct Elections ·
Mr. Dykes asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent progress has been made by Her Majesty's Government in preparing the United Kingdom for direct elections to the European Parliament in the legislative and comparison with administrative progress in the other member States.
Mr. Judd I refer the hon. Member to the replies which my hon. Friend gave to Questions on this subject earlier today.
· Lomé Convention Conference
40. Sir G. de Freitas asked the Secre- tary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs what financial or other assistance, direct or indirect was given to the recent Lomé Convention confer- ence held in Kampala.
Friend asked the same question in the Mr. Tomlinson: When my right hon.
European Parliament, I told him, ca behalf of the EEC Council of Ministers, that there had been no Community financial or other assistance to the con- ference. There was none from the United Kingdom, nor was any requested
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