We shall discuss a range of international issues, including the Crisis in Yugoslavia.

We took rapid action to respond to the Crisis in Yugoslavia and will continue to work together for a peaceful settlement.

The Prime Minister: I and my EC colleagues decided at the European Council in Luxembourg on 28 June to send 219 the troika of EC Foreign Ministers to Belgrade and Zagreb to try to negotiate an agreement on the terms of a ceasefire which would allow negotiations between all the parties involved in the Crisis in Yugoslavia.

Mr. Douglas Hogg: We fully support the efforts of the United Nations, of Lord Carrington's conference and of the EC monitoring mission to find a peaceful solution to the Crisis in Yugoslavia.

After referring to the ministerial-level meeting of the steering committee of the international conference - the follow-up to the London conference which is due to take place on 16 December, and which will be attended by my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary, the statement continues: The European Council, which brings together the Heads of State and of Government of countries which are profoundly peace loving, will continue to give priority to political means in order to resolve the Crisis in Yugoslavia.

Before the Crisis in Yugoslavia broke, there was some reason for believing that we were in the process of putting into place, through primarily the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, a set of principles which would regulate relations in Europe and deal with the sort of problems that later emerged.

Before Lord Owen was appointed, he made it clear that he believed that military force was the only way of settling the Crisis in Yugoslavia.

The Community requires the proper machinery to deal with problems such as the Crisis in Yugoslavia.

They are welcome, because they highlight the plight of children and young people as refugees, and also the plight of those caught up in the Crisis in Yugoslavia.

The United Nations has had difficulty in responding to the Crisis in Yugoslavia in an ad hoc way.

The system did not take account of the Crisis in Yugoslavia.