Letter: Help for Bosnia's new-born babies

Sir: One significant and welcome achievement of the Edinburgh summit seems to have escaped the attention of the media. In the document setting out formally the summit's conclusions, it is affirmed (Part D, paragraph 16) that 'the European Council accepts the right of countries to acquire the means to defend themselves'.

One trusts that the European Community will be pressing the United Nations forthwith to lift the iniquitous arms embargo upon the legitimate government of Bosnia-Herzegovina - which, of course, includes Muslims, Croats and Serbs - so that it may at last have the means to defend its people from extermination.

Yours faithfully,

MONSON

House of Lords

London, SW1

17 December