§ Mr. Deakinsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if Her Majesty's Government will seek to make the reunification of Germany an objective of the Western European Union.
§ Mr. RentonSuccessive British Governments have taken it as axiomatic that real and permanent stability in Europe will be difficult to achieve so long as the German nation is divided against its will. Heads of Government of the Western European Union—as members of NATO—joined in making the following declaration by NATO Heads of Government in Bonn on 8 June 1982
We recall that the rights and responsibilities of the Four Powers relating to Berlin and Germany as a whole remain unaffected and confirm our support for the political objective of the Federal Republic of Germany to work towards a state of peace in Europe in which the German people regains its unity through free self determination.