The Federal government has extended the arms embargo against Saudi Arabia for six months. The Export ban affects the profit of Airbus.
Donauwörth – The Federal government is threatening to a “mirror”-report because of the restrictions on arms exports to Saudi Arabia in legal disputes. The aerospace group Airbus wool force with an action for failure to act, that the export of helicopters and border security system to Saudi-approved Arabia, reported the magazine in its new issue. The helicopter, with which the pilgrims flows to be monitored in Mecca, has appointed Riad, therefore, at the Airbus plant in donauwörth.
The monitoring system is according to the report, part of a border security package. The volume of orders for the Expansion on the border of the Yemen, lying in the billions.
The Grand coalition in Berlin had extended the arms embargo against Saudi Arabia at the end of March to six months. In the coalition agreement, it is agreed not to supply weapons to countries that contribute “directly” to the war in Yemen, in 2015, more than 10,000 people were killed.
Federal government: No military equipment to Saudi Arabia and the Emirates
For community projects with other States, a different rule applies. Here is not supposed to use the Federal government to ensure that such goods arrive in the Yemen war. Also to be delivered by the end of December, not “the assembled armaments” from community programs in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The German arms export ban to Saudi Arabia had already been to the profit of Airbus. The net profit of the group broke in the first three months of the year by 86 percent to approximately 40 million euros, as Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury on Tuesday in Paris had communicated.
Airbus-arms Board of Directors Dirk Hoke is pushing for a rapid solution to the dispute. The company is with the government, although in an interview, he said the “mirror”. The restrictions on exports not be “just bad for business for us, but also for an Airbus shareholder, such as the Federal government is not understandable”. Therefore, Airbus will retain all the legal options, stressed Hoke.
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