HC Deb 03 December 1976 vol 921 cc280-1W
Mr. Critchley

asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will take action within the NATO Co-ordinating Committee (COCOM) to encourage an agreement being reached to limit the quality, if not the quantity, of arms sold to the Third World.

Mr. Mulley

The 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.