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Aden (Soviet Proposal)

Volume 730: debated on Monday 20 June 1966

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58.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will protest to the Russian Government about their proposal to help Egypt to foment revolution in Aden.

The Soviet Government have frequently expressed their support for so-called liberation movements in Aden and elsewhere. Their policies in these matters are not, I regret, designed to secure a fair settlement in the interests of all the peoples concerned. I am not, however, aware of a specific Soviet proposal of the kind mentioned.