HC Deb 22 February 1989 vol 147 c618W
Mr. Sillars

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is Her Majesty's Government policy towards the reunification of Germany.

Mrs. Chalker

As my right hon. and learned Friend told my hon. Friend, the Member for Bedfordshire, South-West (Mr. Madel), on 8 February, successive British Governments have taken it as axiomatic that real and permanent stability in Europe will he difficult to achieve so long as the German nation is divided against its will.