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20. Miss Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the current state of the stockpiled ivory in Hong Kong.
Mr. Waldegrave: The latest available figure for the current stock of elephant ivory held in Hong Kong (to the nearest tonne) is 472 tonnes, 356 tonnes of which are available for trading.
EC Policies
ECD
23. Mr. Knox: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what further proposals he intends to place before his European Community partners for the development of Community policies.
Mr. Maude: We have taken the lead in the Community on a wide range of issues, among them giving effect to the detailed measures called for in stage 1 of the Delors report on economic and monetary union; the development of policy towards eastern Europe, strengthening the partnership between the US and the Community and urging rapid progress towards completing the single
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We shall press our EC partners to continue to give top priority to completion of the 1992 programme, and to maintaining an outward-looking and liberal Community, in line with the commitments which we have secured in successive recent European Councils.
Hong Kong
HKD
24. Mr. Andrew MacKay: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he next intends to visit Hong Kong.
Mr. Maude: I shall be visiting Hong Kong from 7 to 11 April.
Drugs Trade
NCAD
25. Mr. Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assistance he intends to give to south Asian countries in their attempt to curb the international drugs trade.
Mr. Sainsbury: South Asia, as the principal source of heroin reaching the United Kingdom, is a priority area for our drugs-related assistance. We are currently funding large-scale, drugs-related projects, in both Pakistan and India, managed by the United Nations fund for drug abuse control.
German Democratic Republic E
26. Mr. Barry Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what message has been sent by his Department to the victors in last month's general election in the German Democratic Republic.
Mr. Waldegrave: We would expect to send a message to the new Foreign Minister of the GDR once a Government have been formed. We have welcomed the elections as a great day for Germany and for Europe.
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Rcvi 37 Mr. Watts AF Rs1990 Secretary of State No Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the outcome of the elections in the German Democratic Republic
Mr. Waldegrave: The elections in East Germany on 18 March were, -as confirmed by foreign observers, free, fair and well organised. We have welcomed the elections as a great day for Europe and for Germany.
Brazil
SAMD
27. Mr. Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations Her Majesty's Government have made to the Government of Brazil about their development of ballistic missiles.
Mr. Waldegrave: None.
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28. Mr. Bill Michie: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the outcome of the last meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva.
33. Mr. Eastham: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the outcome of the last meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva.
Mr. Sainsbury: The Commission on Human Rights is the major United Nations forum for discussion of human rights issues. At its last session from 29 January to 9 March it discussed a very large number of human rights problems and, in particular, adopted resolutions critical of the human rights situations in a number of countries. The wide range of views represented at the commission meant, however, that on a number of issues it did not go as far as we would have wished.
53. Mr. Martyn Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what action he is taking following the last meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva.
Mr. Sainsbury: As a member of the commission the United Kingdom delegation played an active part in its work. We shall continue our efforts to promote respect for human rights and to urge compliance by all states with their international obligations.
Romania
29. Mr. Arbuthnot: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will take all possible steps to encourage free and fair elections in Romania.
Mr. Waldegrave: We wish to encourage free and fair elections in Romania. To promote this we invited a group of members of the Romanian political parties to visit the United Kingdom in March to study our political and electoral systems. We hope to fund the visit to Romania of a group of up to 12 local government officers to observe the election campaign and poll on 20 May. We also welcome the decision of the IPU to send observers, and are encouraging the Romanians to invite observers from the Council of Europe. We have also contributed 118 tonnes of paper to a wide range of political parties for their use in the election campaign.
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