In fact, such an approach will condemn COCOM to death by a thousand cuts.
What is more, Leger participated directly as a French representative in meetings of COCOM (1).
In the meantime, there should be no further deterioration permitted in the existing COCOM regime.
Accordingly, assembly in the USSR of Western computerized telephone exchanges is currently proscribed by COCOM.
The next opportunity for a review of the situation will be at COCOM's high-level meetings in October.
The Center calls on the Bush Administration to reconsider its approach to the 28 February COCOM meeting.
By the way, we also appreciate your lifting of COCOM restrictions on the flow of strategic Western technology.
Rather, what the West should do at this juncture is to undertake to enforce the present COCOM standards.
Its purpose was to demonstrate the serious problem arising from lax enforcement of COCOM guidelines by member nations.
The multilateral regime governing exports of high technology items with military applications, known as COCOM, is long gone.
The potential repercussions are staggering should this espionage case confirm the compromise of sensitive COCOM procedures, deliberations and plans.
First, a greater effort clearly needs to be mounted to enforce COCOM restrictions.
The Center's analysis concludes that, in the process, the formal U.S. negotiating positions at COCOM have been grievously undermined.
Responsible officials from these organizations have expressed strong concerns about both the content and timing of the new COCOM initiative.
Western export controls effected under the voluntary arrangement known as COCOM have been highly effective in safeguarding this qualitative edge.
In an extremely serious breach of the existing COCOM standard, Olivetti evidently started selling the Soviets sophisticated machine tools in 1984.
In May of this year, COCOM was set to begin a major liberalization of export controls on dual-use technology for China.
In light of the foregoing concerns, an effort was made to reverse the earlier COCOM decision to decontrol sales of such equipment.
This would involve setting up something that resembles the Cocom controls over high-tech exports to the Soviet Union during the cold war.
Such devices have been rigorously controlled by COCOM until now because of the obvious utility they would have to Soviet military applications.
The House would also have the government propose to COCOM that exports of state-of-the-art telecommunications equipment for civil end-use be allowed to any country.
"It is utterly untrue that the high-end computers at stake in the decontrol decision are available from sources beyond U.S. and COCOM control, " said Gaffney.
In this connection, it is especially important to obtain the cooperation of COCOM countries in order to ensure that this policy change is uniformly observed.
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In the absence of COCOM controls, certain member countries will have inadequate legal instruments to prevent exports of technologies that lend themselves to nuclear proliferation.
Given this sorry track record, I am very leery of commitments now being offered that enforcement will improve if only the COCOM list is shortened.
This can be seen in the priority he has attached in his diplomatic and economic forays into the West to encouraging the dissolution of COCOM.
It would also terribly undermine the vitally needed COCOM enforcement effort.
This flim-flam is reminiscent of the Clinton Administration's assurance that a new technology transfer regime would replace the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls, COCOM.
Naturally, Alcatel has enormous political influence in many COCOM member nations.
The "Wise Men's" recommendations are now awaiting formal acceptance by COCOM.
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