§ 69. Mr. Dalyellasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will explore the possibilities through the United Nations of establishing an international treaty similar to the Nuclear Test Ban Agreement, to cover chemical and microbiological warfare.
§ Mr. MulleyI would refer my hon. Friend to what I said in the House on 19th June. We think that when the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee reconvenes, it should work for further measures in the nuclear field to follow up the Non-Proliferation Treaty, but that it should also give serious consideration to non-nuclear disarmament problems.
A priority here will be for the Committee to consider what can be done in regard to chemical and biological weapons, with a view to strengthening and bringing up to date the existing agreement in this field, the 1925 Geneva Protocol.—[Vol. 766, c. 1108–9.]