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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 February 1991.

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Photo of Mrs Alice Mahon Mrs Alice Mahon , Halifax 12:00, 13 February 1991

Will the Minister reconsider his letter to me about bringing up at the United Nations the repression and killing in the Baltic states? Will he, even now, acknowledge that it is not good enough to say, as he did in his letter, that he does not think the United Nations Security Council is likely to solve the issue. Does not that show appalling double standards, given the Government's reliance on the United Nations for everything they say about the Gulf?