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Yugoslavia

Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign andommonwealth Affairs what financial assistance and other advice he is considering offering to the Government of Yugoslavia to aid their efforts to broaden democracy and achieve economic stability.

Mr. Waldegrave: We have been helping the Yugoslavian economy by participating in the rescheduling of the principal and interest due on debts in the Paris Club. We believe that a new agreement with the IMF will be of central importance for the future of Yugoslavia's programme of economic adjustment and liberalisation. We have agreed with our partners within the European Community that, once an IMF agreement is reached, we will be ready to examine further aid measures and increased cooperation.

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Immigration

Mr. Bidwell: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will instruct the chief immigration officer at the British High Commission, New Delhi to issue immediate entry clearance to the close relatives of the late Mr. Sekhon, a constituent of the hon. Member for Ealing, Southall.

Mr. Sainsbury: I wrote to the hon. Member on 19 January advising him of the action which Mr. Sekhon's relatives should take if they wish their applications to be considered further.

Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for what reasons the spouse of a British subject can be refused a visa to settle in Britain; which of these reasons was used in rejecting the visa application by Mrs. Pianov, who is a Polish national married to a British citizen, Oleg Pianov; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Sainsbury: The spouse of a British citizen applying for an entry clearance to settle in this country must satisfy the relevant requirements of the immigration rules; these are set out in paragraph 50 of HC 388.

Mrs. Pianov has not been refused a settlement visa. She applied for a visit visa which has been granted.

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EEC Overseas Territories

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Mr. Teddy Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the names and populations of overseas territories of members of the EEC; if he will further indicate what plans there are to allow persons from such territories the right of abode within the EEC; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Maude: The list of member states' overseas territories and their populations (estimates for the year in brackets) is:

Anguilla

United Kingdom:

Bermuda

British Antarctic Territory

British Indian Ocean Territory British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands

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Numbers and year

Falkland Islands Gibraltar Hong Kong Montserrat St. Helena. Tristan Da Cunha South Georgia

South Sandwich Islands Turks and Caicos Islands

France:

Overseas Departments Martinique French Guiana Guadeloupe Reunion

Territorial Collectives St. Pierre et Miquelon Mayotte

Overseas Territories

French Polynesia

French Southern Antarctic Territories New Caledonia and Dependencies Wallis and Futuna Islands

Netherlands: Aruba

Netherlands Antilles

Portugal: Macao

1 Populated by scientists and technicians.

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Numbers and year

1,916 (1986) 29,692 (1987) 5,736,100 (1988) 11,900 (1988) 5,564 (1987) 311 (1988)

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Uninhabited 14,000 (1988)

336,952 (1988)

11,0000 (1989)

334,000 (1988)

578,500 (1988)

6,500 (1987) 67,000 (1985)

188,814 (1988)

'Nil

164,173 (1988)

13,100 (1985)

60,312 (1981) 175,395 (1981)

500,000

2 Army unit and staff at British Antarctic Survey, Bird Island. 1 Population only 200 scientists and staff.

The Overseas Departments and the Territorial Collectives are part of metropolitan France and their citizens are therefore EC nationals. Gibraltar forms part of the EC and its citizens are therefore EC nationals. Citizens of the other territories listed in the table do not have rights of entry into the Community unless they hold a passport of a member state which specifically entitles them to entry.

We are not aware of any plans by other EC member states to amend the existing rights of entry to the Community for their overseas territories.

On Hong Kong, I refer my hon. Friend to the statement my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs made in the House on 20 December.

Ballistic Missiles

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Mr. Macdonald: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his Department's assessment as to the number of countries in the middle east that are capable of delivering (a) chemical and (b) nuclear warheads on ballastic missile vehicles; and if he will list them.

Mr. Waldegrave [holding answer 15 January 1990]: The following middle east countries are believed to possess or to be developing ballistic missiles which would be technically capable of delivering either a chemical or nuclear warhead.

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bug:7,000 (1985) *: 56,000 (1985)

Egypt

Iran

1Nil Uninhabited 13,000 (1985) 23,400 (1987)

Iraq

Israel

Libya

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