§ 121. Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement about the current state of arms control negotiations.
§ Mr. WaldegraveNATO is pursuing energetically all the arms control priorities set out at the May NATO summit, and western proposals continue to dominate the arms control agenda. The conventional arms control negotiations have made good progress since they were established in March, and we remain on course to reach the ambitious target we have set ourselves of agreement next year. We are also moving forward towards a global chemical weapons convention at the negotiations in Geneva. As United States and Soviet negotiators are making progress towards a START agreement which would make deep cuts in each country's strategic nuclear arsenal.