§ Q42. Mr. Lathamasked the Prime Minister whether she will make a statement on the progress towards mutual, balanced and verifiable disarmament.
§ The Prime MinisterWe welcome the recent decision of the Soviet Union to resume the MBFR talks in Vienna and hope that they will return soon to the START and INF talks in Geneva.
NATO is currently pursuing a comprehensive package of confidence-building measures at the Stockholm conference on disarmament in Europe.
NATO is also seeking verifiable disarmament measures at the committee on disarmament in Geneva, in particular a total ban on chemical weapons.