Despite international criticism of Saudi Arabia, the French company Naval has signed an agreement with the Saudi Arabian defence company Sami about the creation of a joint venture. How Saudi Arabian Military Industries (Sami) said on Sunday in a statement, the agreement was signed with Naval, the majority French state-owned, on the outskirts of the international arms exhibition Idex in Abu Dhabi.
The Joint Venture is reported to be in Saudi Arabia, frigates and submarines to develop and manufacture. Thus, high-skilled “Jobs would be created”. Sami is led by the former Rheinmetall-Manager Andreas Hard. This is explained in the company’s notice, the agreement with Naval laying the foundations for a “strategic partnership”, the Saudi Arabia self-reliant in the defence of the sea do.
point of contention with Germany
NGOs and French parliamentarians, the government in Paris, have called repeatedly, arms deliveries to Saudi Arabia to suspend. They justify this with the leading role of the ultra-conservative Kingdom in the Yemen war, and the assassination of the government-critical Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in October in Istanbul.
Germany had been suspended due to Khashoggis assassination by Saudi Arabian agents, the arms exports to Saudi Arabia, although the country is one of the largest buyers of German weapons. France imposed sanctions against the country, supplied it with weapons.
in Order to defuse the dispute, which is in the German-French relations, both sides have agreed to in the 22. January, the Aachen Treaty was signed, the drafting of common rules for arms exports.
The French Naval Group had made this week’s headlines, as beneficiaries of the largest defense business in the history of Australia. Naval to build, according to a on Monday signed a contract of twelve U-boats in the total value of the equivalent of more than EUR 30 billion for the Australian Navy. The German ThyssenKrupp group were, however, empty. (afp)
Created: 17.02.2019, 16:14 PM
