HL Deb 05 July 1996 vol 573 cc119-20WA
Lord Kennet

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether British collaboration with the United States in Strategic Defence Initiative programmes as envisaged in the 1985 memorandum of understanding was conditional on the United States' acceptance of the four points that Prime Minister Thatcher and President Reagan agreed at Camp David in 1984; whether these have since been dropped by the United States Administration; and, if so, whether new conditions safeguarding British and international interests in the ABM field have been agreed in place of the Camp David conditions, and, if so, what.

Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

The four points agreed by my noble friend Lady Thatcher and President Reagan related to the then United States Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). The UK is not party to the ABM Treaty. But we remain in close contact with the US in this area.