HC Deb 26 April 1988 vol 132 cc111-2W
77. Mr. Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent exchanges of military data on (i) conventional force deployments and (ii) battlefield and tactical nuclear weapons have taken place with the Warsaw pact.

78. Mr. Parry

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent exchanges of military data on (i) conventional force deployment and (ii) battlefield and tactical nuclear weapons have taken place with the Warwaw pact.

Mr. Mellor

At the Stockholm conference on confidence and security building measures NATO delegations proposed exchanges of information on conventional force levels and dispositions. Warsaw pact delegations rejected this proposal. The September 1986 Stockholm agreement is therefore limited to exchanges of information on certain military activities in the field.

As for nuclear weapons, the United States and the Soviet Union have exchanged information on systems covered by the intermediate nuclear forces treaty. We and other NATO Governments regularly publish detailed information on both our conventional and nuclear capabilities. We have passed this information to Warsaw pact representatives during arms control discussions and urged them to reciprocate. So far they have not done so.

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