§ Mr. Dalyellasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1) whether the Geneva Protocol on the use of chemical and biological warfare, signed by Great Britain in December, 1966, lists crop destroying agents;
(2) what lethal and non-lethal agents are listed in the Geneva Protocol on the use of chemical and biological warfare signed by Great Britain in December, 1966.
§ Mr. MulleyParties to the Geneva Protocol of June, 1925, of which the United Kingdom is one accepted the prohibition of "the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices", and agreed to extend it to the use of "bacteriological methods of warfare". Individual agents were not listed and there was no mention of crop spraying agents. The United Nations General Assembly Resolution of December, 1966, which the United Kingdom supported, called for strict observance of the principles and objectives of the Geneva Protocol; individual agents were not mentioned in it.