asked the Minister for External Affairs why in the Dáil on Wednesday, 16th July, in reply to a question about suggestions by the Italian and Finnish Governments that a European security conference should be summoned, he stated that he was not aware of any Italian initiative in view of the report on 11th April, 1969, that Signor Nenni, the Italian Foreign Minister, has proposed that the NATO alliance meet as soon as possible with members of the Warsaw Pact and that European nations that do not belong to either alliance should also be involved; and whether his Department have responded to this initiative by indicating Irish willingness to participate in such a conference.
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