Denmark stops renewing arms sales licenses to Saudi Arabia

Al-Jazeera correspondent said that Denmark stopped the renewal of arms export licenses to Saudi Arabia against the background of the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the situation in Yemen.

In addition to weapons, the Danish decision includes techniques that may have military uses.

"The State Department suspends all sales of arms and military equipment to Saudi Arabia," Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelson said, expressing the hope that more European countries would follow suit.

He stressed that Riyadh plays a negative role and that it is time to send a signal representing the European side that the situation has reached its peak.

The Danish position is added to the positions of European countries recently announced a halt to the export of arms to Riyadh in addition to the decision of the European Parliament to impose further restrictions on EU exports of arms to Saudi Arabia.

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The Norwegian Foreign Ministry announced last week the freezing of licenses to export arms to Saudi Arabia, against the background of what it called "recent developments" in the Kingdom, and the ongoing war in Yemen.

In turn, Germany called on European countries to do the same and to suspend arms sales to the kingdom for the time being, and announced the prevention of 18 Saudis from entering its territory and the Schengen region to move freely in Europe on suspicion of involvement in the murder.

The pressure on Saudi Arabia to reveal the official who gave orders to kill Khashoggi in the consulate of his country in Istanbul last month, and in this context, Reuters quoted the site of the Turkish daily Hurriyet on the Internet that the CIA has a registration for a telephone call issued In which Saudi Crown Prince Prince Mohammed bin Salman instructed "to silence Khashoggi as soon as possible."