A German parliamentarian: The government did not abide by the arms embargo on Saudi Arabia

Berlin-SANA

Deputy for the Green Party in the German “Bundestag” Omid Nuribor criticized the German government’s failure to abide by the ban on arms exports to the Saudi regime, which is leading an aggression against the Yemeni people.

"The clause on the arms embargo for the parties involved in the Yemen war is not worth the paper it was written on," Nuribor said, according to Deutsche Welle, pointing out that the German government did not abide by the ban.

Nuribor's words came after the German Ministry of Economy, in response to a question from the deputy, made it clear that the ruling coalition government agreed in 2020 to sell weapons worth one billion dollars to countries in the Middle East, some of them linked to the war on Yemen.

In 2018, the German government announced that it would stop arms exports to the parties involved in the aggression against Yemen, especially the Saudi regime.