Intergovernmental Conferences

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 February 1991.

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Photo of Mr Geoffrey Finsberg Mr Geoffrey Finsberg , Hampstead and Highgate 12:00, 13 February 1991

Does my right hon. Friend agree that it has become clear from events in the Gulf that the intergovernmental conference ought not to come to any conclusion that the defence of western Europe should be handed over to the Community? Will he use his best endeavours to strengthen the Western European Union, which is the right organisation, as the European pillar of NATO?