In view of the fact that the Soviet Union initiated a moratorium on their own part to end, for a period at any rate, the underground testing of nuclear weapons, will the Minister ask them now to extend that moratorium indefinitely and by ending their ban not to respond to the American continued testing?

I would very much like to see that test ban extended indefinitely but, as I said in reply to a question by Deputy Collins, I think it is not useful for us to be giving advice or instructions to one side or the other in the matter of disarmament. We should be saying that we want to see the elimination of all weapons. We should adopt that general stance. It is not helpful to choose one side today and another side tomorrow.