§ Dr. TongeTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if the Government will be supporting the resolution at the UN General Assembly's First Committee on Disarmament and International Security entitled, "Towards a Nuclear Weapon Free World: the Need for a New Agenda"; and if he will make a statement. [96433]
§ Mr. VazAs at last year, the New Agenda resolution contains many proposals we strongly support, but also a number we do not, including measures we examined in detail in the Strategic Defence Review, and concluded were incompatible with the maintenance of our minimum nuclear deterrent. We will therefore vote against the resolution as a whole.