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G8: 2005 Summit

My Lords, does the Minister not realise that it would be a good deal easier to respond to the G8 Summit conclusions if they were available to Members of this House in advance of the Statement? They were not, I think; I certainly tried all morning and over lunch to get access to them. I am not talking about the text of the Statement in the other place, but the G8 conclusions, which were completed on Friday night. It is difficult for any Member of the House to comment without their being available. On a more positive note, does the Minister not agree that the G8 Summit put in place a number of extremely important building blocks for a successful UN summit in September, and that the task is now to carry that forward into the wider agenda? Will she say something about what Her Majesty’s Government, with their presidencies of the G8 and the EU, plan to do before September to ensure that those building blocks are put together and improved on? Will she say a little about non-proliferation, which seems to be missing from the Statement but is perhaps in the G8 conclusions, which I have not seen? It seems to be a gaping hole in the plans for a successful summit in September.