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Mr. Eggar: Following
's detention by police at Peking airport on 5 June, our embassy in Peking lodged an immediate inquiry with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and made considerable efforts to trace his whereabouts. The embassy subsequently established that he was unharmed in a hotel room in Peking and kept in close contact with him. We have now had confirmation that
was evacuated safely from Peking on
8 June.
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no objection if the right hon. Member for Islwyn (Mr. Kinnock) wished to publish our exchange. He did so on 27 May.
Mr. Winnick: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent statements were made by the Minister of State in his Department, the hon. Member for Bristol West (Mr. Waldegrave) to a BBC correspondent regarding possible blackmail of hon.
роб PUSD Members by Soviet agents; and if he will make a
statement. Members of Parliament (Blackmail) Sov.
Mr. Winnick: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on what criteria he selected (a) the means and (b) the timing to let it be known that the possible blackmail of hon. Members had not been in any way associated with the recent expulsion of Soviet citizens.
Sir Geoffrey Howe: The story appeared in newspapers on Friday 26 May. The Leader of the Opposition wrote to me on 26 May to seek a statement of the Government's views. I replied on 26 May, making clear that I should have
Sir Geoffrey Howe: I have nothing to add to the statement issued by my hon. Friend on 2 June.
Eastern Europe and Soviet Union
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Mr. Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign So. and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects to respond to the report of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs on Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
Mr. Waldegrave: The Government's response to the Select Committee report was published today in the form of a Command Paper.
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