Members of parliament on July 23 queried why Britain had granted licences to sell tens of millions of pounds worth of arms to Russia, embarrassing Prime Minister David Cameron, who has called for a Europe-wide ban on such sales because of the Ukraine crisis.
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Reuters: Lawmakers criticise UK arms sales to Russia as Cameron pledges no new exports
British Prime Minister David Cameron. The government said in March it would stop some arms exports to Russia, but the report said that as of mid-May only 34 of 285 outstanding licences worth more than 131 million pounds had been suspended or revoked.
