Oral Answers to Questions — Sudan (Missionaries)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 23 March 1964.

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Photo of Mr Robert Mathew Mr Robert Mathew , Honiton 12:00, 23 March 1964

Her Majesty's Ambassador is in touch with the Sudanese Government on the subject. Everything possible has been done to ensure proper protection for British missionaries. This is a matter for Sudanese domestic law in the first instance. In reply to the last part of my hon. Friend's supplementary question, the order originally applied only to missionaries in the three southern provinces, but I understand that it has recently been extended to cover at least one mission outside those provinces, the Sudan Interior Mission in the Blue Nile province. There are no United Kingdom citizens in that mission.