BBC: Peers defeat arms export curbs

[Owen Blacker]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1938000/1938218.stm

| Government plans for new legislation to tighten control of arms exports
| have suffered a double defeat
| 
| Proposals for export licences for military equipment to developing
| countries have come under scrutiny from the House of Lords.
| 
| Peers voted by 145 to 120 in favour of tightening up a requirement that
| ministers must take account of "sustainable development" when issuing
| licences for military equipment overseas.
| 
| Peers also voted by 150 to 108 to partially exempt academics from a
| measure aimed at controlling information that could be used to build
| weapons. 
| 
| [continues...]

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