Status of nuclear forces - Consequences of Soviet build-up - and improvements across the range of nuclear forces - Steps to ensure adequate strategic balance - Deterrence - Balanced, equitable and verifiable arms control agreements - Special Consultative Group - LRTNF arms control - Nuclear aspects of long-term defence programme - High Level Group.

Continuing threats to security and international stability - Firmness in defence and persistence in the search for peaceful solutions - Afghanistan - Helsinki Final Act - Poland - Economic and social stability of the Alliance - Increase in Warsaw Pact military power - Need for overall military balance between NATO and the Warsaw Pact - Non-alignment - CSCE Meeting in Madrid - Conference on Disarmament in Europe - Climate for fruitful arms control negotiations - MBFR - Berlin.

LRTNF modernisation and arms control - Negotiations on TNF arms control.

Economic Co-operation and Assistance within the Alliance - Situation in the Mediterranean - Infrastructure - Civil Emergency Planning - State of Civil Preparedness - Science and Technology.

Continuing threats to security and international stability - Soviet strategic, theatre nuclear and conventional build-up - Prospects for continued peace and stable political relations between East and West - Consultations on situations affecting Alliance security outside NATO's boundaries and on implications of national out-of area deployments - Possible effects of future deployment of United States Rapid Deployment Force on reinforcement forces - Search for verifiable arms control agreements - Ministerial Guidance - Preparation of 1983-1988 force proposals - SACEUR's Reinforcement Plan - Strategic importance of the Southern Region and the Mediterranean - Support and assistance to Greece, Portugal and Turkey - Nuclear forces - Negotiations within the SALT framework - Status of Long-Term Defence Programme - Longer term planning - Infrastructure funding - 3% guidance on resources - Strengthening of United States defence capability.

Nuclear weapons and arms control - Status of nuclear forces - Implementation of the December 1979 two-track decision - Strategic nuclear forces - Commitment to arms control efforts to achieve substantial, balanced and verifiable reductions in strategic weapons - Soviet nuclear power - Publication of US report on Soviet Military Power - Comparison of NATO and Warsaw Pact forces - Imbalance in long-range theatre nuclear forces - Fundamental deterrent role of NATO's nuclear weapons - High Level Group - Geneva negotiations - Special Consultative Group - Possible zero option on basis of reciprocity.

Protocol of Accession of Spain to the North Atlantic Treaty - Arms control and disarmament - Deterrent role of nuclear weapons - Soviet destabilising activities - Afghanistan - Military balance at lower levels of forces - President Reagan's 18 November Speech - US-Soviet Strategic Arms Reductions Talks (START) - Geneva negotiations on intermediate nuclear forces (INF) - MBFR - Helsinki Final Act - Poland - Madrid CSCE Follow-up meeting - Conference on Disarmament in Europe - Committee on Disarmament - 1982 2nd Special Session of UN General Assembly on Disarmament - Berlin - Meeting between Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and Chairman of the Council of State of the German Democratic Republic - International stability.

Economic Co-operation and Assistance within the Alliance - Science for Stability - Situation in the Mediterranean - Equipment Co-operation - Technology Transfer - Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society.

• Declaration on Terrorism, 10 December 1981.

• Ministerial Declaration on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force Modernization and Arms Control, 11 December 1981.