HC Deb 10 February 1999 vol 325 cc289-90W
Mr. Wilshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 26 January 1999,Official Report, columns 214–15, on arms embargoes, when each of (a) the listed UN resolutions and (b) the implementing Orders in Council were first circulated to the relevant British ambassadors. [69815]

Mr. Tony Lloyd

The UK Mission in New York transmits the texts of United Nations Resolutions on adoption to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and relevant overseas posts.

As stated in my reply of 26 January, it was not normal practice prior to July 1998 to circulate details of the Orders in Council to the relevant High Commissions or Embassies.