asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make representations to the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics concerning Iosif Begun, a Jewish engineer and mathematician, who was arrested on 7 November, and has variously been denied his rights to free expression under the Helsinki agreement.

The leader of the British delegation to the CSCE review meeting in Madrid referred to Dr. Begun in a speech at a plenary session on 7 December.