§ 26. Mr. James Lamondasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on progress at the Stockholm conference on confidence and security-building measures and disarmament in Europe.
§ 31. Dr. Twinnasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on progress at the Stockholm disarmament conference.
§ 55. Mr. Soamesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the confidence building talks in Stockholm.
§ Mr. LuceAt the second round of the conference, which began on 8 May, the Soviet Union formally circulated its proposals for confidence and security-building measures. Western countries, Romania and the neutral and non-aligned countries tabled their own proposals during the first session. Representatives of the Western and NNA countries have proposed that a working group be established to discuss all the measures put forward as a preliminary to substantive negotiations in accordance with the CDE mandate; but there is no consensus on this as yet.