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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