To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give the dates on which diplomatic relations with any member state of the United Nations were severed, indicating in each case whether it was Britain or the country concerned which severed the relations.
Following is the information:
| Cases in which the United Kingdom has initiated a break in diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom since 1946 | |||
| Country | Dates | ||
| 1. | Albania | 1946 | — |
| 2. | Uganda | 28 July 1976 | 21 April 1979 |
| 3. | Argentina | 2 April 1982 | 19 February 1990 |
| 4. | Libya | 30 April 1984 | — |
| 5. | Syria | 31 October 1986 | — |
| 6. | Cambodia | 6 December 1979 | — |
| Cases in which other countries initiated a break in diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom since 1946 | |||
| Country | Dates | ||
| 1. | Iran | 1951 | December 1952 |
| 7 March 1989 | — | ||
| 2. | Saudi Arabia | 17 November 1956 | 28 July 1963 |
| 3. | Yemen | 16 February 1963 | December 1967 |
| 4. | Somali Republic | 18 March 1963 | 4 January 1968 |
| 5. | Guatemala | Reduced to consular level 31 July 1963 | |
| Consular relations broken September 1981 | |||
| Resumed August 1986 | |||
| Full diplomatic relations resumed December 1986 | |||
Country
| Dates
| ||
| 6. | Algeria | 18 December 1965 | 10 April 1968 |
| 7. | Congo (Brazzaville) | 16 December 1965 | 10 April 1968 |
| 8. | Ghana | 16 December 1965 | 5 March 1966 |
| 9. | Guinea | 15 December 1965 | 20 February 1968 |
| 10. | Mali | 16 December 1965 | 10 April 1968 |
| 11. | Mauritania | 17 December 1965 | 10 April 1968 |
| 12. | Sudan | 18 December 1965 6 June 1967 | 16 April 1966 25 January 1968 |
| 13. | Tanzania | 15 December 1965 | 4 July 1968 |
| 14. | UAR | 17 December 1965 1956 | 12 December 1967 1959 |
| 15. | Iraq | 8 June 1967 1 December 1967 | 1 May 1968 resumed by 5 September 1974 |
| 16. | Syria | 6 June 1967 | 28 May 1973 |
| 17. | Iceland | 19 February 1976 | 2 June 1976 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list those countries with which Britain has diplomatic relations but where there is no resident ambassador in the country to which he is accredited, indicating in each case where the ambassador resides.
We have full diplomatic relations on a non-resident basis with the following countries (the country of residence of Her Majesty's ambassador/high commissioner is shown in parentheses after each):
- Antigua and Barbuda (Barbados)
- Benin (Nigeria)
- Burkina (Ivory Coast)
- Burundi (Zaire)
- Cape Verde (Senegal)
- Central African Republic (Cameroon)
- Chad (London)
- Comoros (Mauritius)
- Djibouti (Yemen, North)
- Commonwealth of Dominica (Barbados)
- Dominican Republic (Venezuela)
- El Salvador (Honduras)
- Equatorial Guinea (Cameroon)
- Grenada (Barbados)
- Guinea (Senegal)
- Guinea-Bissau (Senegal)
- Haiti (Jamaica)
- Laos (Thailand)
- Maldives (Sri Lanka)
- Mali (Senegal)
- Mauritania (Senegal)
- Nauru (Fiji)
- Nicaragua (Costa Rica)
- Niger (Ivory Coast)
- Rwanda (Zaire)
- St. Kitts, Nevis (Barbados)
- St. Lucia (Barbados)
- St. Vincent and The Grenadines (Barbados)
- Sao Tome (Angola)
- Surinam (Guyana)
- Togo (Ghana)
- Tuvalu (Fiji)
- Western Samoa (New Zealand)
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the member states of the United Nations Organisation with which the United Kingdom does not have diplomatic relations.
The following is the information:
- Albania
- Bhutan
- Cambodia
- Iran
- Libya
- Syria