UK government ignored advice to cease arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Senior British officials did not listen to legal advice that the UK government should stop authorising the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia during its war in Yemen, according to a former foreign official, the Middle East Eye reported on February 10th.
In The Guardian, Mark Smith wrote that during the war there was a meeting of high-level senior officials, such as legal advisers, where it was “acknowledged that the UK had exceeded the threshold for halting arms sales.”
In respect of the UK’s legal framework, arms sales must stop if their is an obvious danger that the weapons could be used to carry out gross breaches of international law.
Middle East Eye, The Guardian
