§ Mr. Harry BarnesTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth affairs if he will make it his policy at the next European Foreign Affairs council meeting to raise with his German counterpart the involvement of German companies in exporting technologies and materials directly or indirectly to Iraq that could assist in the production of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydWe are in regular contact with the German authorities over this issue.
§ Mr. Harry BarnesTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he possesses in regard to the current activities undertaken at the military nuclear research facility at Karochooq in Iraq.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydIraq has declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency only one nuclear research establishment, at Tuwaitha. We are unaware of the alleged nuclear research facility specified in the question.
§ Mr. Harry BarnesTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he has in regard to current status of the tripartite agreement564W between Iraq, Egypt and Pakistan completed in December 1985, for the construction of a collectively sponsored experimental nuclear reactor at Al-Wadi Al-Jadid.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydWe are aware of media reports in December 1985 that talks had taken place with a view to establishing co-operation in the nuclear field between Egypt, Iraq and Pakistan. We do not know of any subsequent developments.
§ Mr. Harry BarnesTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he possesses concerning the current status of the agreement made between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, in March 1989, for the Saudis to finance the rebuilding of the Osiraq nuclear plant in Iraq.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydAs far as we are aware, no such agreement was ever put into effect.
§ Mr. Harry BarnesTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he has any information in regard to the renewal of the 10-year agreement in October 1989 between Brazil and Iraq, for the provision of low enriched uranium and nuclear technology services to Iraq.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydWe understand that the Brazilian authorities have denied that there is now any nuclear co-operation between Brazil and Iraq.