European Union diplomats on Wednesday said a U.K.-led push to relax the arms embargo on Syria this month looks likely to stall, with most member states wanting to give the latest Syria peace initiatives more time before moving toward arming the opposition.
Interestingly, just a few months ago, it was this same subcommittee that voted out legislation, subsequently adopted by the full House on 6 June 1990, which would greatly relax U.S. export controls and sharply diminish the influence of the Defense Department in opposing ill-advised transfers of militarily relevant technologies.