§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment Her Majesty's Government have made of biological weapons research still undertaken in Russia.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonFollowing Russia's admission last year that it had possessed an offensive biological weapons programme, the United Kingdom, the United States and Russia are now engaged in a trilateral process to ensure it has ended. It would be premature to make an assessment before that process is complete.