§ Mr. CryerTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will discuss with each of those Southern African front-line states which are not already members the question of their accession to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggAs a depository state of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty—NPT—it is our policy to take every suitable opportunity both to raise the importance of nuclear non-proliferation with all non-parties to the NPT and to lobby them to accede to the NPT as soon as possible.