Quadripartite Committee
50. The International Development Committee continued
its contribution to the 'Quadripartite' Committee, together with
colleagues from the Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry
Committees. The Quadripartite Committee's task is to examine strategic
export controls, which it has done since 1999. The Committee published
a report on the Government's Strategic Export Controls Annual
Report for 2002,[24]
which included concerns about the end-use of British equipment
in the Aceh region of Indonesia. The report also covered small
arms proliferation and called on the Government to use its position
on the UN Security Council; its chairmanship of the G8; and its
presidency of the European Union to promote international consensus
in this area. If the proposed International Arms Trade Treaty
is not the right solution, then another one needs to be found
urgently. Towards the end of the year the Committee took further
evidence to take forward this work in to 2005.
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