Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty

HC Deb 13 May 1994 vol 243 c282W

Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is Her Majesty's Government's policy towards the Canadian proposals put to the preparatory committee meeting for the 1995 nuclear non-proliferation treaty conference, in respect of the division of the conference into a review group and an extension group.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

Canada has circulated informally a paper on the 1995 non-proliferation treaty extension and review conference putting forward a number of ideas, one of which is that an extension committee should be established at the conference, in addition to the three main committees that have been set up by previous review conferences. The proposal has yet to be discussed formally. We expect this may happen in the context of discussion on the rules of procedure at the remaining two preparatory committee meetings.