Dr. ThomasTo ask the Prime Minister (1) if, during her meeting with President Gorbachev in the Soviet Union in September, she raised the opportunities available to the depository states for the nuclear non-proliferation treaty to increase treaty membership and strengthen compliance before the fourth nuclear non-proliferation treaty review conference next August;
(2) if, during her meeting with President Mitterrand of France on 1 September, she discussed the prospects of France joining the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in the period before the fourth non-proliferation treaty review conference to be held in summer 1990;
(3) if, during her visit to Japan in September, she raised with members of the Japanese Government the co-operation on nuclear technology and nuclear fuels sales between Japan and the United Kingdom, pursuant to articles III and IV of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and initiatives to be jointly promoted by Her Majesty's Government and the Japanese Government on strengthening the non-proliferation treaty before and at its fourth review conference next August.
§ Sir Geoffrey HoweI have been asked to reply.
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