UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The licences indicate that on 27 September 2024 - three months after the UN security council received images alleging the presence of ML14 rated small-arms equipment in Sudan - the UK government issued an "open individual export licence" for the same category of products to the UAE.
55% : Months after the UN security council first received material alleging that the UAE may have supplied British-made items to the RSF, new data indicates that the British government went on to approve further exports to the Gulf state for military equipment of the same type.
55% : "We expect all countries to comply with their obligations under existing UN sanctions regimes," the FCDO said.
53% : British engines made specifically for a type of UAE-manufactured armoured personnel carrier also appear to have been exported to the Emirates, despite evidence that the vehicles had been used in Libya and Yemen in defiance of UN arms embargos.
51% : Nine months earlier in January 2024, a report by the UN panel of experts on Sudan - appointed by the security council to monitor Darfur's arms embargo - stated that claims the Emirates were supplying weapons to the RSF were "credible".
48% : Images in the dossiers seen by UN diplomats show Nimr Ajban-series armoured personnel carriers (APCs) allegedly captured or recovered from RSF positions.
41% : By 2016 the UK government was aware that the UAE had supplied Nimr APCs in violation of a UN arms embargo to armed groups in Libya and Somalia.
35% : Mike Lewis, a researcher and former member of the UN panel of experts on Sudan, said: "UK and treaty law straightforwardly obliges the government not to authorise arms exports where there is a clear risk of diversion - or use in international crimes.
29% : British military equipment has been found on battlefields in Sudan, used by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group accused of genocide, according to documents seen by the UN security council.

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