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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Dutch Weapons Exports Continue to Rise

F-16 Fighting FalconThe Netherlands exported weapons worth 1.41 billion euros last year, up 12 percent from 2008, according to the annual report of the Dutch Campaign against Arms Trade (CTW) published yesterday.

"Contrary to the spirit of the (export) policy, large quantities of weapons are still going to dictators, conflict areas and developing countries," the anti-defence lobby organisation says.

"Although Dutch arms export policy demands a critical view of the human rights situation and internal and regional efforts in the destination country, this is no obstacle to sales to clearly problematic destinations such as Egypt, Yemen, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia," CTW says.

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