MINISTERIAL CONTACT WITH THE PLO

leave out from 'regrets' to end and add 'congratulates the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for not meeting Asif Sofiah, the PLO representative in London who, without notice, sought to accompany Elias Freij, the Mayor of Bethlehem, to a scheduled meeting with the Minister; agrees that Her Majesty's Government should not undermine the peace process by changing its correct policy of no Ministerial meetings with the PLO and should press for the lifting of the Arab Trade Boycott on Israel in response to the flexibility shown by the Israeli Government over settlements on the West Bank.'.