§ Mr. Beithasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he has taken to respond to the offer to place a British seismic monitor in the Soviet Union to share in the monitoring of future Soviet nuclear tests.
§ Mr. RentonNo such offer has been made to us. In the case of the monitors installed in the Soviet Union by a non-official US body, we understand that they were in fact not operating at the time of the Soviet test on 26 February.