§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will investigate the role of the Astra company of Ramsgate, and its Belgian subsidiary PRB, in exporting anti-tank rocket launchers to the armed forces of the Khmer Rouge operating in Cambodia.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydWe have no evidence to substantiate these allegations. A licence is required to export such equipment under the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1989, as amended, and any breach of the controls would be carefully investigated.
§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy at the next European Council of Foreign Affairs Ministers to ask his counterparts from France and Germany whether any military equipment and offensive armaments have been exported from manufacturers in their respective countries to the armed forces of the Khmer Rouge operating in Cambodia.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThese are matters for the Governments concerned.