The United Kingdom signed off on arms exports worth nearly 1.4 billion pounds ($1.9bn) to Saudi Arabia between July and September last year following the lifting of a ban on weapons sales to the Gulf country \u2013 a move critics slammed as \u201cimmoral\u201d amid the continuing war in Yemen.<\/p>\n
The publishing of the figures by the UK\u2019s Department for International Trade on Tuesday came days after new United States President Joe Biden said his country was ending all support \u201cfor offensive operations\u201d by a Saudi Arabia-led military coalition fighting Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels, including \u201crelevant arms sales\u201d.<\/p>\n
Campaigners said the newly released\u00a0figures highlighted\u00a0the discrepancy between the UK and the US, as President Joe Biden\u00a0halted similar arms sales\u00a0to Riyadh last week.<\/p>\n
‘Once again UK politicians have put profit before Yemeni lives’<\/p>\n
– Martin Butcher, Oxfam<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n“These new figures are shocking and once again illustrate the UK government’s determination to keep supplying arms at any cost,” Sarah Waldron, of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (Caat), said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“UK-made weapons have played a devastating role in the Saudi-led attacks on Yemen, and the humanitarian crisis they have created, yet the UK government has done everything it can to keep the arms sales flowing.”<\/p>\n
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The comments were\u00a0echoed\u00a0by Martin Butcher, Oxfam’s\u00a0conflict adviser, who called the sales “immoral”.<\/p>\n
“Once again, UK politicians have put profit before Yemeni lives,” he said.<\/p>\n
“This is the largest increase in arms exports to Saudi Arabia since March 2015 and takes the known total of licences up to \u00a36.7bn since the Saudi intervention in Yemen started.<\/p>\n
“Yemen is living through the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with two-thirds of the population reliant on food aid, and yet people are profiteering from the misery caused by these arms sales.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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