HC Deb 16 January 1995 vol 252 c285W
Mr. Worthington

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) if he will support a global ban on the production, sales, stockpiling and use of anti-personnel mines;

(2) if he will call for the United Nations to impose a global ban on production, stockpiling, sale and use of anti-personnel mines.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

We support international efforts to strengthen controls on the stockpiling, transfer and use of anti-personnel land mines but believe that a complete ban at this stage would neither secure broad international support nor be properly implemented.