To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if since 1983 he has had any meetings with, or made approaches to, or received approaches from representatives of the Resistencia Nacional Mocambica movement or intermediary spokesmen of that movement.

No direct meetings have taken place. A number of telephone contacts have occurred for humanitarian purposes over the capture of British citizens.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is her Majesty's Government's policy towards the Resistencia Nacional Mocambica.

We do not recognise RENAMO. We deplore RENAMO's terrorist activities in Mozambique and neighbouring countries, with whose Governments we have full diplomatic relations.