UK: 'Progress made' on plan to stop Gaza arms flow

London: After a Friday meeting in London, British officials said nine nations working on a plan to prevent weapons smuggling into the volatile Gaza Strip plan meetings in Canada next month to work out details.

The group, including Britain and the United States, agreed to use existing United Nations resolutions as a legal basis for concerted interdiction efforts rather than seek new legal authority to prevent weapons from reaching Gaza militants.

Officials said a statement spelling out the strategy would be posted on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Web site on Monday.

A senior British diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government policy said the nine countries agreed that "non-coercive" methods would be used to clamp down on the arms flow.