§ Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether British or NATO observers will be present, under the terms of the Helsinki Agreement, at the exercise to be mounted in East Germany in July by 30,000 Soviet troops; what representations he has made 614W to the Soviet authorities regarding British or NATO observers in this case; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. JuddUnder the Final Act of the CSCE, invitations to observers to attend military manoeuvres are issued voluntarily. The Soviet authorities have stated that observers will not be invited to the exercises of the group of Soviet forces in the German Democratic Republic from 3rd to 8th July, of which they recently gave advance notification under the Final Act. The terms of the Final Act do not provide grounds for making representations against this decision.