Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has made it clear that we are not prepared to withdraw our troops from the former Yugoslavia unless the arms embargo is lifted.
We believe the situation is extremely volatile. We believe that we, the members of UNPROFOR, the United Nations in ex-Yugoslavia, continue to discharge our mandate.
We are concerned with reports from some of our allies about a precipitous withdrawal. Obviously, and this has been raised before in the House by other members, NATO has plans that are being worked on should there require a withdrawal of forces. At the moment that is not Canada's position.
Next week there will be the regular defence planning committee meeting in Brussels which I shall attend, as will General de Chastelain, chief of the defence staff, and some of these questions will be explored in greater detail.
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