Sentences with phrase «saudi arms sales»

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Arms sales between the U.K. and Saudi Arabia are a moot point for protesters.

Trump said the U.S. - Saudi relationship had improved from the days of the Obama administration, which halted some arms sales to Saudi Arabia over concerns about civilian deaths in Yemen.

In March, as Prince Mohammed met with Mr. Trump and top national security officials in Washington, the State Department approved the sale of an estimated $ 670 million in anti-tank missiles in an arms package that also included spare parts for American - made tanks and helicopters that Saudi Arabia previously purchased.

The judges said «closed material», which had not been made public for national security reasons, «provides valuable additional support for the conclusion that the decisions taken by the secretary of state not to suspend or cancel arms sales to Saudi Arabia were rational».

In June, newspaper Die Zeit alleged that German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had authorised the sale of arms to the Saudi Arabian government in an attempt to influence the vote of the Saudi committee member.

We see it every time that government ministers sign military agreements and lobby for arms sales, and every time they turn their back on those living under Saudi oppression.

Since March 2015, the UK has approved # 3.3 billion in military sales to Saudi Arabia, according to the London - based Campaign Against Arms Trade.

There is a spectacular irony to anyone criticising Venezuela's sales of arms to Syria without having made equal noise complaining about our own sale of arms to Saudi Arabia, but that is not an excuse.

The Human Rights record in Saudi Arabia is poor, and many are opposed to arms sales to the Saudi government, however, there has not been a major massacre of protesters in Saudi Arabia that is comparable.

Why weren't the human rights track records of Saudi Arabia and India checked before approving arms sales?

The Prime Minister claims she has raised issues including women's rights with the Saudi government but the Labour leader says she must go further and ban arms sales to the regime.

Pressure has been mounting on the justifications of arms sales to Saudi Arabia, who would likely be implicated in the government report David Cameron commissioned on the roots and sponsors of domestic extremism, were it to be published.

In 2016, he attacked Saudi Arabia's war in the Yemen and promised to suspend arms sales to the Saudis and other countries which commit human rights abuses or war crimes.

David Cameron said he would look at the report but insisted Britain had one of the strictest set of rules governing arms sales almost anywhere in the world, adding that the UK was not directly involved in the Saudi - led airstrikes.

plan to force a Senate vote to block a $ 1.15 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia that the Obama administration announced last month.

Suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia and control arms exports to countries with poor human rights records.

He was the middleman who profited from Britain's biggest arms deal — «Al - Yamamah» — which involved the multi-billion-pound sale of fighters and warships to Saudi Arabia.

According to the BBC, the judges said that «closed material», or in other words secret or non-publicly available documents, «provides valuable additional support for the conclusion that the decisions taken by the secretary of state not to suspend or cancel arms sales to Saudi Arabia were rational.»

In 2004, the SFO started an investigation into suspected accounting irregularities relating to BAE and a government to government deal struck in 1985: Britain signed the Al - Yamamah arms for oil deal with Saudi Arabia, the biggest ever UK export contract involving the sale of 120 Tornado fighter jets.

Recent reports state that the High Court has ruled that the UK Government's arms sales to Saudi Arabia are lawful,...

The High Court has dismissed a legal challenge brought by NGOs against the UK government's licensing of arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which has been involved in military conflict in Yemen since 2015.

In May 2018, the Court of Appeal (Irwin and Flaux LLJ) gave permission to CAAT to appeal the judgment of the Administrative Court (Lord Justice Burnett (as he then was) and Mr Justice Haddon - Cave) which dismissed the challenge to the decisions to continue to grant export licences for the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia, both on grounds advanced in open and by the Special Advocates in closed.

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