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MPs pile pressure on to halt UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia over Yemen civilian casualties

108 views · Published 16 September 2016 · 4:40 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: Public Enquiry · 2016 · News & Politics

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A committee of UK lawmakers have called on London to stop the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia until an inquiry into Riyadh’s human rights violations in Yemen is complete.

The Committees on Arms Export Control or CAEC have raised serious concern about the UK’s commitment to international law regarding the sale of arms. The CAEC inquiry chairman Chris White says the government must now take urgent action in halting the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia. 

White also called for an independent inquiry into Saudi Arabia’s use of cluster bombs in Yemen. Meanwhile, the foreign affairs select committee led by a conservative party lawmaker says arms sales should be decided by the high court. Britain has sold over five-billion-dollars worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since Riyadh’s bombardment of Yemen began.

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