§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress is being made on the forest charter for UN conference on environment and development, as outlined in the speech of the Minister for Overseas Development to the World Wide Fund for Nature on 11 December.
§ Mrs. ChalkerA world forest charter remains one of the options for UNCED in 1992, but the international community has yet to agree for which international forest instruments to aim and in what forum negotiations should proceed. We hope that progress will be made at the second meeting of the UNCED preparatory committee, 15 March to 5 April, in Geneva.