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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he next plans to visit eastern Europe to discuss political and economic co-operation.
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs plans to visit Czechoslovakia in late July. We have regular discussions with east European leaders during high-level visits in either direction and in the margins of international gatherings. We are extending our co-operation with these countries ever more widely as they make progress in economic and political reform.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he has taken to ensure that assistance to the countries of eastern Europe is conditional upon significant political and economic reform.
Our policy remains that the type and degree of aid to the reforming eastern European countries should match the stage of political and economic reform they have each reached.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to lessen the cost of visa applications to managers in eastern Europe who wish to visit the United Kingdom to acquire management skills.
Managers from eastern Europe visiting the United Kingdom through the know-how funds are issued visas gratis. Those coming under other auspices are eligible to apply for two-year multiple-entry visas, which are cheaper, pro rata, than single-entry visas.