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Arms Export Controls

I agree that the best way of dealing with the matter is at the licensing stage, but surely the pragmatic way of enforcing the end use is this. Officials, whether in the Minister's Department, the Foreign Office or the Ministry of Defence, will know perfectly well the countries where there is likely to be a problem and will know perfectly well the type of arms exports that are likely to be re-exported to those countries. Therefore, the effort should be made in the countries where there is likely to be a problem. In that way, the finite resources that any Government will have available to them can be used more effectively.