Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 26 January 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy to consider human rights issues before permitting the sale of arms to China.
This is already the case. Applications for licences to export arms and other goods controlled for strategic reasons are considered against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria. Criterion Two of the Code obliges the Government to refuse an export licence if there is a clear risk that the proposed export might be used for internal repression.
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