§ Mr. MaudeTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on Serbia's exports of wheat and maize to(a) Libya, (b) Iraq and (c) Syria. [126627]
§ Mr. Vaz[holding answer 19 June 2000]: We do not have reliable statistics on the volume of Serbian or Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) grain exports to Iraq, Libya and Syria. However, according to official FRY figures, FRY exports to all developing countries represent only 7.3 per cent. of total exports and are unlikely to do much to reduce the FRY' s growing trade deficit. We do not believe that stocks available for export are high.