§ Lord Kennetasked Her Majesty's Government:
What discussions they are having with ex-Soviet intelligence services (Russia, Ukrainian, etc) parallel to those the US intelligence services are having with them (Moscow World Service in English, 10th January).
§ The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Chalker of Wallasey)We discuss intelligence matters with a number of countries. Such arrangements depend on confidentiality and we do not comment on them in any detail.
I can however confirm that in December 1991 the Deputy Director General of the Security Service visited Moscow accompanied by a senior Home Office official. They discussed with the Russian security authorities the running of a security service within a democracy, a subject about which the Russians had expressed interest, and the prospects for co-operation on counter terrorism.