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Malawi

Mozambique

Nauru

Qatar

Papua New Guinea

Portugal

Rwanda

Fiji

Gabon

Grenada

Sierra Leone

Solomon Islands

South Africa

Spain

St. Lucia

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Suriname

Sao Tome and Principe

Saudi Arabia

Seychelles

Tanzania

Thailand

Tonga

Tuvalu

Uganda

Western Samoa

Zambia

Zimbabwe

(b) The following are parties to the treaty but have not yet completed a full-scope safeguards agreement :

Antigua and Barbuda

Bahamas

Bahrain

Benin

Bolivia

Botswana

Barbados

Belize

Cambodia

Cameroon

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Congo

Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea

Grenada

Guinea-Bissau

Haiti

Kenya

Kuwait

Laos

Latvia

Liberia

Lithuania

Malawi

Mali

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Mozambique

Qatar

Rwanda

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Dominica

Equatorial Guinea

Estonia

Gabon

Sierra Leone

Solomon Islands

Somalia

Syria

Tanzania

Togo

San Marino

Sao Tome and Principe

Saudi Arabia

Seychelles

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Uganda

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Yemen

Zambia

Zimbabwe

(b) Iraq's proven endeavours to develop a nuclear weapon programme was a flagrant breach of its obligations under the NPT. The failure of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to sign and implement its safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency is also a breach of its obligations under the NPT. However, we welcome the recent signature of this agreement and look forward to its early ratification and implementation.

All those listed in B except Mozambique, Albania, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia are in technical breach of their obligation to sign a safeguards agreement with the IAEA within 18 months of depositing their instrument of accession. However, this is of no practical significance as none of the states in question possesses nuclear materials requiring safeguards.

(d) The following states have indicated an intention to accede to the treaty, but have not yet done so :

1. France

2. China

3. Ukraine

4. Belarus

5. Kazakhstan

6. Uzbekistan

7. Turkimenistan

8. Azerbaijan

9. Kirgizstan

10. Tajikistan

11. Armenia

12. Moldova

North Korea

Mr. Cryer : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 21 January, Official Report, columns 103-4, what information he has about the design on which the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has constructed a plutonium production nuclear plant.

Mr. Douglas Hogg : As far as we are aware, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has not made public any information about the design of this facility.

Human Rights

Mr. John Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what part Her Majesty's Government are playing in the international fora for the promotion of human rights.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd : Her Majesty's Government has consistently played a full and active role in international human rights fora. The United Kingdom was re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights this year. I paid a visit to the Commission in Geneva on 29 and 30 January. In my speech I reaffirmed the British Government's commitment to the universal promotion of human rights and announced a £25,000 contribution to the United Nations voluntary fund on torture.

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