§ 21. Mr. Chapmanasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on progress on disarmament since the United Nations second special session in June-July 1982.
§ Mr. HurdThe negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union in Geneva for reductions in intermediate range nuclear forces and strategic systems were recently resumed. In July a major new proposal was made by the West in the mutual and balanced force reduction negotiations in Vienna. Work has continued in the committee on disarmament for a convention banning the production of chemical weapons. The West is looking to the Russians for a constructive response to the range of proposals that has been put forward.