§ Lord Aveburyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will consult the government of Russia about reports in the Zimbabwe Independent of 5 May that military equipment, including 21,000 AK-47s, were recently imported into Zimbabwe from Russia; and whether they consider that any exports of weapons to Zimbabwe under present conditions constitute a breach of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Principles Governing Conventional Arms Transfers of November 1993. [HL2436]
§ Baroness Scotland of AsthalWe have no collateral for the report of the export referred to in the article. We will be drawing Russia's attention to our national embargo on Zimbabwe and asking it to take similar action.