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Mr. Matthew Taylor
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a direct plea for clemency for the Sharpeville Six.
Mrs. Chalker
Further appeals on behalf of the Sharpeville Six were made by Foreign Ministers of the Twelve on 14 June, by the Security Council on 17 June. by Heads of Government at the Toronto summit on 20 June, and by the European Council on 28 June. We have also raised the issue again direct with the South African Government.