§ Mr. Lathamasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will make a statement on the current work of the ad hoc committee on chemical weapons since Dr. Cromartie assumed the chairmanship for 1986.
§ Mr. RentonThe 1986 mandate for the ad hoc committee on chemical weapons at the conference on disarmament was approved on 6 February 1986. The committee has set up three subsidiary working groups. Topics considered have included the control of civil chemicals; the destruction of chemical weapon stocks; and the institutions that would be necessary to implement a CW convention. Under the overall chairmanship of Dr. Ian Cromartie, leader of the United Kingdom delegation to the conference, negotiations have been detailed and businesslike.