The Post said Obama would likely make a final decision on arms in coming weeks.
Ministers decided such a deal could breach Criterion Four of the EU Code on Arms Exports.
Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa suggested reviewing Japan's primitive policy on arms exports last Tuesday.
Many of the poorest countries spend significantly more on arms than on basic education.
In 1995, the Senate voted 69-to-29 to unilaterally lift the U.N. embargo on arms shipments to Bosnia.
The prime minister has urged the European Union to end its embargo on arms supply to Syria.
The Belgian politicians who, not so long ago, took vast kickbacks on arms deals were hardly southern.
But many of the Montesinos millions may have come from kickbacks on arms purchases from Belarus and Russia.
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If the sanctions committee finds the shipment originated in Iran, that would breech a ban on arms exports.
Britain was also committed to adhere to the EU Code Of Conduct on Arms Exports, signed in June 1998.
But self-imposed restrictions on arms exports make it hard to work more closely.
EU, along with Australia and the United States, imposed as one of its sanctions an embargo on arms sales.
Both said no announcements were going to be made on arms sales.
The Foreign Office reckons that 90, 000 jobs are dependent on arms exports.
Beyond that, however, they have pressed to remove any mention in the new outline of a general change in principle on arms exports.
It costs less than the world spends in a week on arms to provide basic health care and education for the world's poorest people.
And there should be savings on arms purchases, he points out, that could be diverted towards caring for some of the war's many victims.
There is a long tradition of bipartisan leadership on arms control.
The govenment had already been operating a ban on arms export guarantees to the 41 nations covered by the internationally-agreed Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC).
And southern leaders have been criticised for spending so much of their relatively small direct income, mostly from oil, on arms rather than schools or clinics.
Dos Santos immediately spent much of the money on arms to fight rebels led by Jonas Savimbi, according to Global Witness , the London-based human rights group.
In a Westminster Hall session on 20 October 2011, a member of the parliamentary Committee on Arms Export Controls, Sir John Stanley, opened a debate on his committee's annual report.
Much of this money appears to have come from commissions paid on arms deals, according to Jose Ugaz, a special prosecutor in Peru appointed to investigate the former spy chief.
International sanctions on Iran include a UN embargo on arms exports and nuclear technology as well as EU bans on most financial transactions as well as the purchase of crude oil.
EU's code of conduct on arms transfers would suffice.
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One of Capitol Hill's stalwarts on arms control, Sen.
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Shadow foreign secretary William Hague said "smart sanctions" might include a ban on arms sales to Iran, tough UN shipping inspections and "action against the interests of the Iranian revolutionary guard corps".
Thefts of firearms have fallen by half since 1991, controls on arms-smuggling from the United States have been tightened, and the police make much use of the database system in their investigations.
To prevent Saddam Hussein getting his hands on cash that might be spent on arms, America has set out to persuade the neighbours to cut down on smuggling, and start border inspections.
Ms. SAMINA AHMED (Director, International Crisis Group): To assume that money saved from the national budget, if it wasn't going to be spent on arms, was going to be spent on education isn't necessarily correct.
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