§ 22. Mr. Warrenasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what initiatives have been taken by his Department on chemical weapons since January at the conference on disarmament in Geneva.
§ Mr. LuceThe United Kingdom continues to play a leading role in negotiations at the Geneva conference on disarmament to ban all chemical weapons. On 14 February, I introduced important proposals on challenge inspection in cases of suspected non-compliance. On 12 July our delegation tabled a further working paper on arrangements to monitor the manufacture by the civil industry of certain chemicals, to ensure their wholly innocent use and non-diversion to military purposes. We urge the Soviet Union to join us in reaching the earliest possible agreement on all aspects of a complete ban.