HC Deb 19 June 1990 vol 174 cc537-8W
32. Mr. Bowis

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what defence contacts his Department has made over the past 12 months with Warsaw pact countries.

65. Mr. Sumberg

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what defence contacts his Department has made over the past 12 months with Warsaw pact countries.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

During the past 12 months there have been regular meetings with representatives of Warsaw pact nations at ministerial and official level. Recent contacts have included a visit by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to the Soviet Union last month, and a meeting between my noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces and counterparts from Poland, Norway and France in Oslo on 26 May. I recently met the German Democratic Republic State Secretary for Defence, Herr Marczinek in London.