Guinea Bissau

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 December 1973.

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Photo of Lord  Balniel Lord Balniel , Hertford 12:00, 19 December 1973

I believe that my hon. Friend is right in his description of the actual physical control in Portuguese Guinea. Our information is that, apart from the sparsely populated area of the Madina Boé region, the Portuguese control the greater part of the territory, as well as the towns and the means of communication.