§ Mr. Michael Brownasked the Lord Privy Seal what is the Government's view of the so-called "Brezhnev doctrine" of the limited sovereignty of Socialist States in Eastern Europe.
§ Mr. BlakerThis concept of "limited sovereignty" is inconsistent with the sovereign equality of States in international law, which is a basic principle of he United Nations Charter. It implies a claim to a right of intervention by one or more Communist States in the affairs of another sovereign and independent State which is contrary to international law and to the CSCE Final Act.