Arms licences for Israel stopped.BRITAIN has suspended sus·pend v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends v.tr. 1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school. a number of arms export licences to Israel, following concerns about the use of UK-supplied equipment in its controversial offensive against Gaza, the Foreign office has announced. The move, which officials insisted did not amount to a partial embargo embargo (ĕmbär`gō), prohibition by a country of the departure of ships or certain types of goods from its ports. Instances of confining all domestic ships to port are rare, and the Embargo Act of 1807 is the sole example of this in , came after a review of all existing export licences to the country ordered by Foreign Secretary David Miliband in the wake of the conflict. "We reassessed these licences against the UK and EU consolidated criteria," a spokesman said. "We judged that in a small number of cases, Israeli action in Cast Lead (the code name for the operation) would result in the export of those goods now contravening the consolidated criteria. "These licences have been revoked. This is standard practice: a number of licences to both Russia and Georgia were revoked following the Georgia conflict." Israeli officials said five licences had been revoked which all applied to parts for Saar-class missile boats, vessels which were used to fire missiles and artillery artillery, originally meant any large weaponry (including such ancient engines of war as catapults and battering rams) or war material, but later applied only to heavy firearms as opposed to small arms. shells at coastal targets. |
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