§ Ms. Ruddockasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) if he will make a statement on the implementation of the conference on security and co-operation in Europe agreement on military exercises as it affects this autumn's North Atlantic Treaty Organisation exercises in the United Kingdom and Germany;
(2) whether Warsaw pact observers will be invited to visit the United Kingdom under the conference on security and co-operation in Europe agreement to observe this autumn's exercises.
§ Mr. MellorThe exercises taking place in the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany this autumn were included in the annual calendars of notifiable military activities for 1987 produced by NATO countries in accordance with the provisions of the Stockholm Document. The United Kingdom will be involved in three: "Certain Strike" and "Keystone", both in the FRG, in September and October respectively and "Purple Warrior" in Scotland in November. All Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe states will be invited to send observers to these three exercises, all of which are above the observation as well as the notification threshold.