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Foreign Affairs - Second Report

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 11 December 2001.


CONTENTS


Terms of Reference

Introduction

Reasons for the inquiry

Effects on the Inquiry of the events of 11 September

Boundaries between this Inquiry and the Committee's Inquiry into Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism

The United Kingdom's Objectives in the United States

The effects of the events of 11 September on British-US Relations

The United Nations

Missile defence and the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

Current US policy on missile defence

Technological progress towards establishing a missile defence system

The 1972 ABM Treaty

US negotiations with Russia over missile defence and the ABM Treaty

British policy and involvement

Domestic and European opposition to US policies for missile defence

Arms control

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty  

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)  

Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

Cooperative threat reduction programmes

1967 Outer Space Treaty

Small arms and light weapons

Anti-personnel land mines

Arms control: conclusions

Other international agreements

The International Criminal Court

The Kyoto Protocol

The US and NATO

The European Union

European Security and Defence Policy

Regional conflicts

The Balkans

The Middle East

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Other regional issues of concern  

Kashmir

BBC World Service radio broadcasts to the United States

BBC World's television coverage in the United States of the campaign against terrorism

Representing and promoting United Kingdom interests in the United States

Trade and investment promotion

Air Services Agreement  

The diplomatic estate

United Kingdom diplomacy in the United States

Conclusion

SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

ANNEX

PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO THE REPORT

LIST OF WITNESSES

MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
Tuesday 30 October 2001
Tuesday 20 November 2001

LIST OF MEMORANDA INCLUDED IN THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE

LIST OF APPENDICES TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE

APPENDICES

UNPRINTED MEMORANDA


 
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