§ Mr. MacShaneTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the international commitments entered into by Her Majesty's Government through the signing by a Foreign Office Minister of the declaration agreed by participating states at the United Nations world summit for social development in Copenhagen in March. [27805]
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe declaration and programme of action of the world summit for social development were adopted by the consensus. No legal commitment was entered into. The advance unedited texts of the declaration and programme of action have been placed in the Library of the House. When the final text issues from the United Nations they will be placed in the Library.