§ Lord Kennetasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether General Joulwan's statement that "Counter-Proliferation" was among "three bold initiatives launched" by the NATO 1994 Summit in Brussels indicates that NATO Member States are already committed to support the US global "Counter-Proliferation Initiative", which includes both automatic real-time identifications of "proliferation" and automatically-launched, offensive, "counter-proliferation" capabilities which later could be not under NATO or any other political control.
§ Baroness Chalker of WallaseyThe NATO study of the potential challenges to the Alliance from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is separate from the US "Counter-proliferation Initiative", which is a US national measure. The NATO study is still continuing and so it is not possible to judge what its conclusions will be.