§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on continuing discussions at European Council level regarding the deployment of police forces in peace-keeping missions. [115578]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeThe European Council agreed at Helsinki last December that, in support of the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the European Union should be able to resort to the whole range of instruments from diplomatic activity, humanitarian assistance and economic measures to civilian policing and military crisis management options (Annexe IV of the Presidency Conclusions).
Follow-up discussion are now under way in European Union subsidiary bodies. Her Majesty's Government will seek the closest possible co-operation among the 703W European Union, the Organisation on Security and Co-operation in Europe and the United Nations in civilian policing.