David Miliband adds to criticism of UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia | Financial Times:
Former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband called for the British government to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia, adding to the pressure on ministers to rethink trade links with Riyadh because of the ongoing civil war and humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Miliband, who now leads humanitarian group, the International Rescue Committee, said Britain should observe its own strict regulations on arms sales which ban the trade of any weapons that may be used by countries in breach of international humanitarian law.
“The stricture is very clear,” Mr Miliband said. “No arms sales for internal oppression or external aggression. I have been saying for some time I couldn’t understand how arms sales to support the war strategy were outside that definition.
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