§ Mr. Critchleyasked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will take action within the NATO Co-ordinating 281W Committee (COCOM) to encourage an agreement being reached to limit the quality, if not the quantity, of arms sold to the Third World.
§ Mr. MulleyThe purpose of COCOM is to maintain a strategic embargo against certain communist countries including the Soviet Union and China, and not to discuss limitations on the sale of arms to the Third World.