asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the Government would be prepared to remove the embargo on Russian imports concurrently with the release of the two British prisoners in Russia?

I had an interview with M. Litvinoff at the Foreign Office on Monday last after which an agreed communique was issued which has been published in the Press and which stated that we had arranged to have another meeting in a few days' time. M. Litvinoff came to see me again this morning, and we shall have a further meeting. I hope that my hon. Friend and the House generally will agree that it is undesirable for me to make any further statement while these conversations are in progress.