{"id":575516,"date":"2025-11-17T05:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/575516\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:10:25","slug":"stop-selling-arms-to-uae-amid-massacre-claims-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/575516\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop selling arms to UAE amid massacre claims \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UAE ordered more than \u20ac21 billion worth of weapons from France between 2015 and 2024, ranking the country among the top purchasers of French arms, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/sites\/default\/files\/ministere-armees\/Rapport%20au%20Parlement%202025%20sur%20les%20exportations%20d%E2%80%99armement%20de%20la%20France.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a government report<\/a>\u00a0released earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2244819750-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7504290\"  \/>Both the SAF and the RSF have been\u00a0accused by the U.N.\u00a0and human rights organizations of serious\u00a0abuses \u2014 including\u00a0mass killings of civilians,\u00a0torture\u00a0and\u00a0sexual violence.\u00a0| Stringer\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>A UAE government official told POLITICO that Abu Dhabi &#8220;categorically rejects any claims of providing any form of support to either warring party since the onset of the civil war,&#8221; adding it &#8220;condemns atrocities committed by both&#8221; sides in the conflict. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no substantiated evidence that the UAE has provided any support to RSF, or has any involvement in the conflict,&#8221; the official said. They stressed &#8220;the UAE operates a comprehensive and robust export control regime in line with its applicable obligations under international law, including with respect to arms control.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Warm ties<\/p>\n<p>European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa visited Abu Dhabi in late October, calling the UAE \u201can important and reliable partner for the EU: for the prosperity, stability and security of both our regions and beyond.\u201d Mediterranean Commissioner Dubravka\u00a0\u0160uica is also due to visit the\u00a0Gulf countries\u00a0next month, including the UAE, according to an EU official afforded anonymity to discuss the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Kabeir said\u00a0the EU should use\u00a0its\u00a0diplomatic weight and the upcoming visit\u00a0to press Emirati officials \u201cto cease sending weapons to the RSF.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happens in sub-Saharan Africa, the impact shows in the Mediterranean,\u201d he warned, adding instability in Sudan would spill over into\u00a0the rest of the region\u00a0and spur migration flows.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UAE ordered more than \u20ac21 billion worth of weapons from France between 2015 and 2024, ranking the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2740,11783,13489,6178,6659,2000,299,5187,4582,806,2820,6657,2597,64032,2822,48,2663,811,6647,11144,1201,2723,15,771,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-575516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-antonio-costa","10":"tag-bulgaria","11":"tag-conflict","12":"tag-crisis","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-human-rights","17":"tag-industry","18":"tag-marco-rubio","19":"tag-migration","20":"tag-military","21":"tag-munitions","22":"tag-regions-cohesion","23":"tag-rights","24":"tag-sanctions","25":"tag-security","26":"tag-stability","27":"tag-sudan","28":"tag-trade","29":"tag-united-arab-emirates","30":"tag-united-kingdom","31":"tag-war","32":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115563320559740466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}