§ Mr. Baldryasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the third European nuclear disarmament convention held in Perugia in July 1984.
§ Mr. LuceThis convention was, like its predecessors, critical of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Delegations from the official "peace committees" of several Warsaw pact countries were present for the first time, but a large124W number of representatives from unofficial peace and human rights groups in Eastern Europe were denied exit visas and were unable therefore to attend. Copies of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's background brief, the "Third European Nuclear Disarmament Convention, Perugia, July 1984", produced in September 1984, are available in the Library.