Chemical Weapons (Hansard, 9 January 1990)

§ 16. Mr. Caborn
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on progress of verification of chemical weapon stockpiles.

§ 28. Mr. Cox
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on progress of verification of chemical weapon stockpiles.

§ 60. Ms. Quin
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on progress of verification of chemical weapon stockpiles.

§ 68. Mr. Flynn
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on progress of verification of chemical weapon stockpiles.

§ Mr. Archie Hamilton
Useful progress was made last year at the conference on disarmament in Geneva on a number of complex issues including verification during the negotiations for a chemical weapons convention. However, much further work is required before a comprehensive and effectively verifiable chemical weapons convention can be achieved. The United States and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have recently concluded a bilateral agreement for the exchange of data on chemical weapons, which we hope will throw much-needed light on the size and nature of the Soviet chemical weapons stockpile.