HC Deb 19 December 1990 vol 183 c162W
Mr. Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what decisions regarding the convention on the regulation of Antarctic mineral resource activities for the Antarctic have been agreed by Britain's representatives at the Santiago convention; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Garel-Jones

The situation at the end of the 11th Antarctic treaty special consultative meeting with respect to CRAMRA is set out in paragraph 20 of the interim report of the meeting. I refer the hon. Member to my reply of 12 December, column421–22, to the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) for the text.