Mr. AinsworthTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what measures were agreed at the nuclear suppliers group meeting in Warsaw in April to improve controls on nuclear exports.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe Nuclear Suppliers Group—NSG—achieved an important step forward in nuclear non-proliferation by the adoption of new controls on nuclear-related dual-use exports. The 27 participating countries reached agreement on guidelines governing transfers and on a list of the nuclear-related dual-use equipment and materials and related technology they will cover. They intend to bring the new arrangements into effect by the end of 1992.
The group also adopted amendments to the existing NSG trigger list, published in 1978, which bring it into line with other international supplier controls.
The text of the two documents have been communicated to the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency and will be published as parts I and II of a new agency circular—INFCIRC/254 Rev. 1—in July. When they are available, copies will be placed in the Library of the House.