Foreign Affairs

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:25 pm on 7 April 1987.

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Photo of Mr Cyril Townsend Mr Cyril Townsend , Bexleyheath 4:25, 7 April 1987

I am grateful for the opportunity to pay tribute to the success of the visit. Is there not a danger, in trying to persuade the Soviet Union to move in certain important directions on human rights and other similar matters by too close a linkage with disarmament, that that linkage will be the death of international diplomacy?