§ 32. Mr. Hal Millerasked the Secretary of State for Defence in which sets of disarmament negotiations officials of the Ministry of Defence or serving officers are taking part.
§ Mr. BlakerArms control and disarmament negotiations are primarily the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and delegations are mainly drawn from officials from his department. There are, however, Ministry of Defence civilian and military advisers with our delegation to the mutual and balanced force reduction talks in Vienna, and Ministry of Defence experts are made available as and when needed in other disarmament forums, such as the committee on disarmament in Geneva. Ministry of 111W Defence officials are in close and continuous consultation with Foreign Office colleagues on all arms control and disarmament issues.