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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he last met the United States Secretary of State to discuss the situation in the Gulf.
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs last met Mr. Baker in Paris on 18 November. Our views on the handling of all aspects of the Gulf crisis remain identical.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the latest estimate he has as to the number of British citizens still being held captive in Iraq and Kuwait.
Our latest estimates of British nationals detained at strategic sites are 341 for Iraq. There are no British nationals detained at strategic sites in Kuwait, though two are detained at an hotel in Kuwait. The estimates for the total numbers of Britons in those countries are 741 and 477 respectively.