§ Mr. ColvinTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if it is his policy to accept an invitation to the United Kingdom to join the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks process and participate in START III. [48293]
§ Mr. Tony LloydThe US and Russia have made it clear that START III will be a bilateral process.
Our manifesto made it clear that we will include British nuclear weapons in multilateral negotiations once we are satisfied with verified progress towards our goal of the global elimination of nuclear weapons.