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17.
Mr. David Shaw
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement about the implications for Soviet foreign policy of internal protest within the Soviet Union.
Mr. Mellor
Unfortunately the improving Soviet human rights performance has not yet been reflected at the CSCE conference in Vienna. Nationalist tensions clearly have implications for Mr. Gorbachev's policy of openness.