HC Deb 21 December 1981 vol 15 c270W
Mr. Hooley

asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will list in the Official Report the main points on which member States at the Madrid conference have reached agreement, and indicate briefly those matters which still remain to be resolved.

Mr. Humphrey Atkins

Provisional agreements have been reached at the Madrid review meeting in the areas of human contacts, family reunification, information, and economic exchanges. There is no agreement as yet on a number of Western proposals in the field of human rights, human contacts, and information; nor on the French proposal for a conference on disarmament in Europe. It will not be possible to assess the 'prospects for a substantive outcome to the meeting until all the elements under discussion can be considered as a whole.

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