§ Mr. RoweTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the proportion of Burma's GNP being spent on armaments and instruments of repression. [31077]
§ Mr. FatchettThe Burmese Government do not release any detailed figures on expenditure on arms, but we estimate that at least 30% of Burma's GNP is spent on general defence expenditure. The EU's Common Position on Burma includes a full-scale arms embargo, the suspension of all defence links and the suspension of non-humanitarian aid.