To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what contacts his Department has had with the Helsinki citizens assembly, based in Prague, established in 1990 to monitor progress in the 1975 Helsinki human rights accords.

A United Kingdom representative of the Helsinki citizens assembly for peace and democracy met FCO officials for the first time on 6 November 1990, to discuss attendance at the CSCE Paris sumit later that month. The representative is regularly sent information on CSCE matters and is invited, together with others interested in the CSCE process, to briefing meetings in the FCO.