HC Deb 17 January 1994 vol 235 cc352-3W
Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will raise with his German counterpart and at the next EU Foreign Affairs Council the implications for EU export control and non-proliferation policy of the recent conviction of the owners of RO-SCH Technology GmbH of Kaufbevren of exporting carbon fibre centrifuge rotor tubes for uranium enrichment in contravention of the Federal German Foreign Trade Act.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

No. I do not intend to raise this issue. The action of the German authorities is a matter for that sovereign state.

Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what proposals Her Majesty's Government intend to put to the second preparatory committee meeting of the fifth review conference of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty to be held in New York from 17 January.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

At the second preparatory committee meeting, we shall be working to ensure that decisions are reached on outstanding procedural and administrative matters relating to the 1995 nonproliferation treaty extension and review conference. Our policy is to secure the unconditional and indefinite extension of the treaty in 1995.