COORDINATING COMMITTEE RECORD OF DISCUSSION ON A UNITED KINGDOM PROPOSAL TO EXPORT AIR SEA RESCUE EQUIPMENT TO POLAND 22ND OCTOBER, 1959

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• Publication Date: October 28, 1959
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C 0 N F I D E N T I A L
28th October, 1959.
COORDINATING CO-, I ITTEE
RECORD OF DISCUSSION
ON
A UNITED KINGDOL Pi OPOS.AL TO EXPORT
AIIi. SEA RESCUE E UIP YNT TO POLAND
22nd October, 1959
COCOM Document go* 3751
4400862
Present: Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands,
Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.
Reference: COCOi 3704.
1. The Cff;IRi~? N drew the attention of the Committee to the United
Kingdom proposal to export electronic equipment for air-sea rescue work to
Poland. He invited Delegates to give the views of their authorities on this
export and also on the general question raised by the United Kingdom as to the
attitude that ember Countries would adept with regard to the export of similar
equipment to other countries in the Sino-Soviet Bloc.
2. The GEN Delegate stated that his authorities did not object to
this export. He added that they favoured a special treatment for life-saving
equipment. Until this general problem raised by the United Kingdom was settled,
they thought that the Committee should give sympathetic consideration to
similar proposals for other countries in the Soviet Bloc. The Committee should
try to find an appropriate way during the List Review to deal with cases of
this nature, for instance by administrative exceptions or by the addition of a
Note excluding life-saving equipment.
3. The UNITED STxTES Delegate said that his authorities sympathised
with the purpose involved in this export, but the frequency of 243 megacycles
mentioned in the United Kingdom memorandum :id not at present appear to be the
internationally assigned distress frequency. On the understanding, however,
that the United Kingdom Delegation were able to c_nfirm that this frequency was
the signal used for rescue operations in the Baltic area, and that the equip-
ment in question operated only on that frequency, the United States would
raise no objection. The Delegate recalled that he had already given his
personal opinion that the general problem raised by the United Kingdom should
be solved :;n a case by case basis following the Committee's normal prc.cedure a.
He now c:;nfirLied that this was the official view of his authorities.
4. The UNITED KINGDO" Delegate undertook to find .ut whether in fact
243 Mc/s was the distress frequency used in the Baltic area. He interpreted
the German statement as implying that the Committee should give sympathetic
consideration to similar requests for other Bloc countries. The United Kingdom
authorities wc;uld certainly submit such cases to the Committee in the normal
way; they merely wished to have some idea of the attitude which other Member
Countries might adopt towards them.
5. There were no objections from the other ie:abers of the Committee
and the UNITED KINGDOM Delegate expressed his thanks for the favourable replies
that had been given.
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