Barry responded to the Secretary of State for International Trade’s statement on the High Court Ruling regarding the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia. Ministers will now temporarily suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia after the court concluded that “The Government made no concluded assessments of whether the Saudi led coalition had committed violations of international humanitarian law in the past, during the Yemen conflict and made no attempt to do so”.
The Court of Appeals ruling today is a damning indictment of this Government’s handling of exports licenses to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.