Sanaa, Nov. 12 (Saba) - Members of the European Parliament have prepared a draft resolution calling on EU countries to immediately ban weapons supplied to the Saudi regime.
The draft resolution contains a proposal to develop a future mechanism to apply sanctions to EU Member States that are not attached to a common position on arms exports.
The parliamentary foreign affairs committee approved a draft resolution on arms exports and presented it this week for discussion in Strasbourg, the media reported.
The European Parliament considers that arms exports to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other members of the Saudi coalition in Yemen do not meet the criterion [2], because of the involvement of these countries in serious violations of humanitarian law, as defined by United Nations bodies.
The European Parliament "reiterates its call for the urgent need for an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia and calls on the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the Council to extend this prohibition to all other members of the Saudi coalition in Yemen.
The European Parliament had previously approved a resolution calling on the Council of the European Union to develop a common position to impose an arms embargo on the Saudi regime, as well as sanctions for its violation.
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The draft resolution contains a proposal to develop a future mechanism to apply sanctions to EU Member States that are not attached to a common position on arms exports.
The parliamentary foreign affairs committee approved a draft resolution on arms exports and presented it this week for discussion in Strasbourg, the media reported.
The European Parliament considers that arms exports to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other members of the Saudi coalition in Yemen do not meet the criterion [2], because of the involvement of these countries in serious violations of humanitarian law, as defined by United Nations bodies.
The European Parliament "reiterates its call for the urgent need for an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia and calls on the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the Council to extend this prohibition to all other members of the Saudi coalition in Yemen.
The European Parliament had previously approved a resolution calling on the Council of the European Union to develop a common position to impose an arms embargo on the Saudi regime, as well as sanctions for its violation.
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