The Greens oppose the coalition’s compromise on the extension of the arms export ban to Saudi Arabia as inadequate. Party leader Anna Lena Baerbock said the Berlin “daily mirror”: “the need for a complete arms export ban to Saudi Arabia. The back door has built the Federal government for community projects, open gaping wide.” It was “absolutely unacceptable” that the German and European arms in Yemen, the war could land.
Baerbock called on the Federal government, with EU partners to ensure that European law is respected: “We need an EU Supervisory Board for a strict European export control and the possibility to sanction member States that break EU rules”, asked the Green party leader. The “trickery” of the Grand coalition in the case of arms deliveries to Saudi-Arabia show, moreover, that Germany need at last a restrictive arms export law. This also includes greater parliamentary control and effective end-use control of the delivered military equipment belonged to.
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The Deputy SPD group Chairman Rolf Mützenich, however, the decision praised in a first reaction, as a “clear Signal” to the European governments. “In the coming nine months, not the assembled products to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates delivered and clear rules of conduct of the company are expected to be, is an important determination, and will strengthen the common European position as a means of Action.” Like other European countries and also the European Parliament Germany want no armaments in the war in Yemen.
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