Sentences with phrase «own arms sales»

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

After discussing the arms sales, Trump suggested that the United States could soon extricate itself from Middle East conflicts after years of involvement in Iraq and Syria.

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.

BERLIN, April 25 (Reuters)- The U.S. government will reduce its administrative surcharge on foreign arms sales to 3.2 percent from 3.5 percent from June as part of a broader bid to make U.S. weapons more competitive internationally, a top U.S. official told Reuters on Wednesday.

Speeding up approvals of arms sales and lowering costs would help U.S. firms and the allies that were buying equipment, while ensuring that military capabilities reached allies sooner, he said.

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«If you're looking to build a real system and a real process around your revenue generation efforts, it has to start with arming your sales and marketing teams with up - to - date, qualified data on your prospect universe — otherwise nothing you do will generate the results you want,» said Henry Schuck, CEO of DiscoverOrg.

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Arms producers use the media to promote arms sales by fostering conflicts within and among countries, often using cultural prejudices for it.

We witness examples of such devastation in our countries such as through the use of chemical pesticides and even fertilizers, the deporting of our mineral wealth by mining transnational corporations, the exploitation of our workers, women and children and the ill - effects of drugs, arms sales and even of some types of tourism.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas has made a name for herself over the years by expressing some very controversial views, like advocating arms sales to Hugo Chavez's regime in Venezuela.

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».

Militaries that use child soldiers or [use children for] training or supportfor peacekeeping operations and so on and so forth... In many cases, we're not actually talking about arms sales, it may just be training and other stuff.»

«So it might include arms sales and equipment sales and literally, you know, giving guns to other countries.

Hercules, Caesar, Colleoni: there is symbolized brute strength, military power, political power, economic power, the power to enslave and destroy; the power of international arms sales, nuclear stockpiles, oil cartels and transnational corporations; the spiritual power of imposed belief and religious triumphalism demanding obedience and maintaining an uncertain peace by the balance of terror, whether by threats of hell or atomic apocalypse.

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.

These arms sales been complemented by a steady stream of diplomatic visits and photo opportunities.

The Labour, SNP and Liberal Democrat front benches have all voiced serious concerns about the humanitarian situation in Yemen and called for an immediate suspension of arms sales.

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.

It is this same drive for arms sales and political influence which saw the Assad regime treated as allies and Tony Blair lobbying for him to receive a knighthood in 2002.

At present two thirds of UK arms sales go straight to the Middle East, and with the Gulf states increasing their military budgets this looks unlikely to change.

On arms sales, yes.

What is the impact of these arms sales?

Immediately after the US and EU banned arms sales to Russia, the Russian government expedited its military modernization efforts.

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.

The government needs to fundamentally rethink how arms sales fit its human rights rhetoric, a Commons report has said.

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

Arms sales come with an implicit political endorsement and give the recipient a layer of international legitimacy.

For the last two years Qatar has been identified by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) as a «priority market» for arms sales.

So, after that meeting in south - west London, let us offer a thought for the erstwhile Quaker and the Anglican vicar as they contemplate the morality of the arms trade: you have the power to make a real difference that will benefit both the UK economy and those who suffer as a result of UK arms sales.

On December 1st, the Indonesian people are due to pay the UK government # 27million, owed for arms sales back in the 1990's to General Suharto.

As well as the business secretary's Cabinet colleagues, Labour leader Ed Miliband has also repeated the mantra of supporting the treaty without seemingly feeling a need to explain how it address concerns about the UK's own arms sales.

When it comes to deciding whether to promote human rights or push arms sales, UK governments never hesitate - the arms company interests are always the priority.

Stop hiding behind the façade that an arms trade treaty will make a difference; stop promoting arms sales to dictators; and transfer the support and subsidy enjoyed by the military companies to growing industries, such as the quest for renewable energy.

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

The US had placed an embargo on arms sale to Nigeria owing to allegations of gross human right abuses against the military.

Fox arranged for Crouch to meet Gerald Howarth, the arms sales minister, and Werritty at the Commons.

Pressure on David Cameron to look into claims that arms sales minister Gerald Howarth met with funder of Liam Fox's friend

In its best passages, his speech showed by example why Liberal Democrats matter: speaking out against BAE arms sales, or extraordinary rendition.

And 62 % think David Cameron was wrong last week to promote arms sales during his visit to the Gulf.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on February 7, 2012 on Export Controls, Arms Sales and Reform: Balancing U.S. Interests, Part II.

In addition, Israel's international standing has been significantly dented highlighted by US and British suggestions that they may review arms sales to the Jewish state more stringently.

• Natural Balance arms its sales team with a «tool box» of promotional programs, and offers in - store and online product information and education.

It makes little sense for the U.S. to anger Beijing with new arms sales if Taipei is unwilling to spend enough to make a difference.

Brazil has relaunched the «Lula Fund»: a proposal to tax arms sales and fight poverty, (Common Dreams).

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.»