Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 19 Rhagfyr 1973.
I am not sure that there is any point in sitting outside the room. We shall get communications from all the parties concerned which will tell us how the conference is going on. The organisation of the conference at the start will be that the combatants will meet, the Russians and the Americans will be the co-chairmen and the rest of us will hold ourselves in reserve to help where help is necessary. We are in a position to do that as a permanent member of the Security Council.