HC Deb 07 December 1977 vol 940 c765W
14. Mr. Adley

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he next intends to attend a meeting of COCOM; and if he will seek to persuade the meeting of the strategic difference to NATO of Communist countries in Eastern Europe that are members of the Warsaw Pact and of those outside Europe which are not.

Mr. Judd

The United Kingdom is represented at official level in discussions of this kind. It is possible to envisage circumstances where different strategic considerations could apply to exports to Communist countries which are—and to those which are not—members of the Warsaw Pact. But each proposed sale must be considered in the light of its own particular circumstances.