§ 36. Mr. Wallaceasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent progress has been made in the negotiations of a treaty to control the possession, manufacture and deployment of chemical weapons.
§ Mr. RentonNegotiations for a comprehensive convention banning chemical weapons resumed at the conference on disarmament on 3 February under Swedish chairmanship. So far attention has concentrated on the problems associated with stockpiles and production facilities, the verification of non-production in the civil chemical industry and the organisation that will be necessary to enforce the convention. There has been some useful elaboration of last year's work but much detail remains to be settled.