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of housing the boat people by the Hong Kong Government.
Mr. Luard: Since 1960, some 80,000 boat dwellers have been resettled in pub- lic housing estates. My right hon. Friend is satisfied that the Hong Kong Govern- ment give appropriate priority to the needs of these people, within an overall programme that will provide public hous- ing for 65 per cent. of the population by 1985.
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Namibia
26. Mr. Wall asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the proposed elections in Namibia and any proposed British participation.
Mr. Rowlands: We hope that, in accordance with Security Council resolu- tion 435, United Nations supervised elec- tions take place in Namibia later this year. We have offered to contribute to the proposed United Nations transition assistance group, but its composition has not yet been finally agreed.
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Uganda
29. Mr. Townsend asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on Great Britain's future relations with Uganda.
Mr. Rowlands: The Government have no plans to resume relations with Uganda.
World Commodities Centre (London) 30. Mr. Knox asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will make a statement about progress towards the establishment of a world commodities centre in London.
Mr. Luard: I have nothing to add to the reply I gave to the hon. Member on 17 January. [Vol. 960, c. 767.]
Banabans
34. Mr. Gerry Fowler asked the Secre- tary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs whether he is satisfied that the safeguards proposed for the Banabans can be made permanently binding on the Government of the new State of Kiribati.
Mr. Luard: My right hon. Friend is confident that the Kiribati Government
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will honour their constitutional commit- ments which include the entrenchment, with a Banaban right of veto, of the pro- the Gilbert Islands Government have ex- visions relating to Banaba. In addition,
pressed their readiness to discuss a treaty with Fiji to safeguard the rights in these provisions.
Paraguay
36. Mr. George asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth.. Affairs if he will raise in the United
the violation of human rights in Paraguay. Nations Commission on Human Rights
Mr. Rowlands: No. We continue to follow the human rights situation in Para- guay closely, and to make the Paguayan authorities aware of our views whenever an appropriate occasion arises. We shall continue to consider whether an initiative of the sort proposed would be effective.
USA (Secretary of State)
37. Mr. Eldon Griffiths asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Com- monwealth Affairs if he will make a state- ment on his talks with the United States
Secretary of State.
Mr. Judd: Mr. Vance and my right hon. Friend discussed many world prob- lems of common interest between our two countries including the problems of Southern Africa, particularly Namibia and Rhodesia, where the deteriorating situation gives cause for concern.
Cyprus
40. Mrs. Jeger asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress is being made to- wards a settlement in Cyprus, particularly as concerns the right of Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots, United Kingdom citi- zens, Armenians and other minorities to return to their own homes.
Mr. Judd : I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave earlier today to my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, West (Mr. Price). The particular question of the return of displaced persons to their own homes would be an important aspect of the intercommunal negotiations.
South Africa
/35. Mr. Ioan Evans asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth
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