§ Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is Her Majesty's Government's policy towards disarmament in the light of the statement of Soviet Foreign Minister Mr. Shevardnadze on 27 February that, if United States medium-range missiles in Europe were liquidated, there would no longer be any need to keep Soviet operating tactical missiles where they have been deployed.
§ Mr. RentonIn the event of an agreement limiting and reducing longer-range INF warheads in Europe, we would expect the Soviet SS22 launchers, forward deployed to the GDR and Czechoslavakia as so-called "countermeasures" to United States LRINF deployments in 1983, to be moved back to Soviet territory.