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UTLink. G7 Summit 1991: PRESS CONFERENCE GIVEN BY THE FOREIGN SECRETARY MR. DOUGLAS HURD, AT THE ECONOMIC SUMMIT IN ... (3721 words) |
 | Foreign Secretary: We have had a good first day of the summit under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister, John Major, and we have this morning issued two declarations of which I think you all have the texts. |
| Foreign Secretary: No we did not discuss that, I think that would be far too sweeping and not particularly helpful, there are countries who are perfectly entitled, think of Kuwait for example, perfectly entitled to rebuild armed forces which were dispersed or shattered during the war. |
| Foreign Secretary: We certainly believe, as I stated earlier, that the relations between the Soviet Union and Japan should be normalised and certainly we are clear that that must include solving the problem of the Northern Territories. |
| NATO Review - No 4 - Aug 1991 (2362 words) |
| Minister of Defence of Belgium and Chairman of IEPG |
| It is therefore perfectly natural that the IEPG ministers, at their meeting in Brussels on 3 July this year, focussed their attention on the role to be played by the IEPG against the background of the developments which have taken place in the various European fora with an interest in defence matters. |
| In a proposal aimed at a common foreign policy, published on 27 February 1991, the Commission stated that the implementation of such a policy would imply the revocation of Articles 223 and 224 of the Treaty of Rome, the scope of which would be covered by the new policy. |
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