§ 70. Mr. Harold Daviesasked the Lord Privy Seal how the United Kingdom representative voted on the several South-East Asia Treaty Organisation Council declarations regarding the Organisation's determination to stand by its obligations to Laos; to what extent these obligations have been modified as a result of the 1954 Geneva Agreement; and if he will inform the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation Council that Her Majesty's Government consider their obligations to be those agreed at the Geneva Conference.
§ Mr. HeathSouth-East Asia Treaty Organisation declarations or communiqués are always issued with the unanimous approval of all members. I am not clear, however, to what declarations the hon. Gentleman refers. As regards the second part of this Question, the Manila Treaty was signed after the Geneva Settlement. There is, in our view, nothing inconsistent in the two documents.