COUNTRIES listed in the 1989 version of Log 17 are as follows.
Group Three (sales prohibited): Zambia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania as well as Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Kampuchea (a note states this depended on “the course of peace negotiations”), Laos, Libya, Mongolia, Syria, South Yemen, Nicaragua, North Korea, Vietnam and Russia.
Group Two (sales of “non-sensitive materiel”, including non- automatic and semi-automatic firearms and ammunition of a calibre less than 20mm; radio and navigation equipment; anti- riot weapons and ammunition; grenades, flares and rockets (for signals, smoke or lighting) and soft-skinned vehicles and military craft without armaments): Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana (no firearms or ammunition), Burma (the government as well as the Karen Resistance Movement), Burundi and its neighbour Rwanda (both riven by ethnic conflict).
Congo, East Germany, Ethiopia (no firearms/ammunition), Ghana (already moving away from Marxism by 1989, it is thought its earlier support for the ANC led to prohibition), Guinea, Guinea Bissau/Cape Verde islands, India (possibly being punished for its anti-apartheid stance), Jordan, Lebanon (although the Christian Militia fell under Group One), Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique (no firearms/ammunition), Nepal, Reunion, the Seychelles and Uganda (no firarms/ammunition).
Group One (all sales allowed bar hardware still under development or which could not be marketed abroad due to sensitivity of foreign content): Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, the Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bophuthatswana, Brazil, Britain, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Caribbean Islands (except Cuba), the Central African Republic, Czechoslovakia, Chad, Chile, Ciskei, Colombia, Comores, Costa Rica, Curacao, Cyprus, Denmark, Djibuti.
Egypt, El Salvador, Ecuador, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guyana, Gabon, Greece, Guatamala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland (a note says “only official government”), Iraq, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait/Bahrain/Qatar, Liberia, Luxemburg, Malawi, Maldives, Malaysia, Morocco, Mauritius, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Guinea, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, North Yemen.
Oman, Pakistan, Papua New-Guinea, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Pacific Ocean Islands, People’s Republic of China, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Saudi Arabia, Senegal/Gambia, Sierra Leone, Singapore and Hong Kong, Scotland (sic), Sudan, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Surinam, South West Africa (police, prisons and territorial force only), Swaziland, Switzerland, Transkei, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Upper Volta, United States, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Venda, Venezuela, West Germany, Western Samoa, Yugoslavia, Zaire.