In a note dated 13 February 1970, the Secretary-General of Western European Union (WEU) circulates the draft reply by the United Kingdom delegation to the WEU Council to Assembly Recommendation 194 on the international trade in armaments. The Council, like the Assembly, would welcome an international agreement to control the international arms trade. The WEU Member States will continue to scrutinise the merits of each application for the supply of arms. The Council also considers that the Agency for the Control of Armaments (ACA) is not authorised to draw up a list of all the armaments exported and the effects that these exports might have on world peace unless the Protocols governing the Agency are amended. The ACA is not informed of the destinations of exports outside WEU, and the United Kingdom is excluded from the control of exports.