§ 30. Mr. Ron Daviesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the response of Her Majesty's Government to the Warsaw treaty organisation proposals handed to Her Majesty's Government via the Hungarian Government in Budapest on 7 May proposing a conference on political détente between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the Warsaw treaty organisation referring back to the Prague declarations of January 1983.
§ Mr. LuceThe proposal made by the members of the Warsaw pact on 7 May to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation for a treaty on the mutual renunciation of the use of armed force and maintenance of peaceful relations was subsequently tabled by the Soviet Union at the multilateral Stockholm conference on 8 May. We believe the priority at Stockholm is to give practical expression to existing commitments on the non use of force by agreement on concrete confidence and security-building measures. These should promote greater openness about military activities throughout Europe in order to reduce the risk of miscalculation or the possibility of surprise attack.