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Britain sold arms worth £3 million to Zimbabwe

Despite their public diplomatic spats, Britain and Zimbabwe are in business. A report released by the British parliament yesterday revealed that the United Kingdom had sold arms worth £3 million to Zimbabwe.

The report by the Committee on Arms Export Control said Britain sold arms worth £12.3 billion to 27 countries that are considered human rights violators.

More than half the value went to Israel which bought arms worth £7.9 billion. Saudi Arabia and China were in second and third place with £1.9 billion and £1.5 billion, respectively.

The Insider has so far not been able to identify what Zimbabwe bought but this consisted of 46 licences.

The Committee recommended that the British government should state for each country the extent to which it contravened its stated policy that: “We will not issue licences where we judge there is a clear risk that the proposed export might provoke or prolong regional or internal conflicts, or which might be used to facilitate internal repression”.

Who was sold what:

 

 

Country

Value of SIELs (£)

Number of extant licences (SIELs and OIELs)

Country

Value of SIELs (£)

Number of extant licences (SIELs and OIELs)

Afghanistan

23,847,337

80

Pakistan

49,802,833

219

Belarus

128,042

11

Russia

86,329,387

271

Burma

3,332,192

8

Saudi Arabia

1,863,182,251

417

China

1,486,415,462

1163

Somalia

1,914,694

26

Colombia

20,089,524

53

South Sudan

0

0

Cuba

0

3

Sri Lanka

8,084,759

49

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

0

0

Sudan

7,642,480

14

Democratic Republic of Congo

2,127,980

20

Syria

143,867

3

Eritrea

960,031

6

Turkmenistan

1,022,016

17

Fiji

35,555

4

Uzbekistan

7,405,718

19

Iran

803,440,351

62

Vietnam

13,371,242

74

Iraq

15,915,430

69

Yemen

64,784

10

Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories

7,878,776,714

381

Zimbabwe

2,992,390

46

Libya

54,583,388

49

Total

12,331,621,526

3,074

 

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Charles Rukuni

The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.

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