HC Deb 18 December 1957 vol 580 c70W
91. Mr. Hunter

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will give his consideration to the offer made by the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister at the United Nations on Friday, 12th December, for an agreement of nonaggression between North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members and the Warsaw Treaty States, and also of his offer to share Sputnik secrets with the Western Nations; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Ian Harvey

The proposed nonaggression treaty between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the Warsaw Pact has already been formally proposed by the Soviet Government in Mr. Bulganin's letter of 11th December, and as my right hon. Friend said in his reply to the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond) on 16th December, this letter is now being studied. Mr. Kuznetsov also spoke generally on the need for a wider exchange of scientific and technical information and visits between the Soviet Union and foreign countries, and Her Majesty's Government are, in general, in favour of such exchanges. He did not make an offer to share Sputnik secrets with the Western Nations.