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发帖数: 4265 | 1 中国巨资进口英国的轻武器。欧美管制武器对华出口，但这次英国却出口，肯定不是发
动机，导弹航母之类中国真正想要的，肯定是中国自己能造的小东西。进口这些垃圾，
肯定是为了给英国送钱，一是讨好养猪人，二是胡温可以拿回扣，往他们的瑞士银行再
充点值，三是可以用这些武器维稳，武装城管，镇压中国人民。
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23336914
17 July 2013 Last updated at 01:16
Arms exports from UK raise questions, MPs say
Jonathan Marcus By Jonathan Marcus BBC diplomatic correspondent
英国武器出口引发质疑
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Similar equipment figured prominently in China's £1.4bn worth of
licences, which also included some small arms ammunition, even though there
is a European Union arms embargo on Beijing.
在出口中国的价值14亿英镑的武器合同中，是类似的装备，也包括小武器弹药，尽管欧
盟对北京武器禁运。
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The UK government has approved more than 3,000 export licences for military
sales to countries which it believes have questionable records on human
rights, MPs say.
The House of Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls says the value of
the existing export licences to the 27 countries in question exceeds £
12bn.
This includes significant sales to China, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Sales to Sri Lanka raise "very serious questions", the report adds.
The committees consist of four select committees meeting and working
together: business, defence, foreign affairs, and international development.
The chairman, Conservative MP Sir John Stanley, said he was astonished at
the scale and value of the licences.
'Clear risk'
There were, for example, more than 60 licences for Iran, including
components for military electronics and what is described as "equipment
employing cryptography".
This appears to be a catch-all term which encompasses a variety of equipment
, much of it in the telecommunications sector.
Similar equipment figured prominently in China's £1.4bn worth of
licences, which also included some small arms ammunition, even though there
is a European Union arms embargo on Beijing.
Sir John told the BBC that in his view the EU embargo "was not drafted as
widely as many people would wish".
Arms licences to Sri Lanka included pistols, small arms ammunition and
approval for the sale of 600 assault rifles, which he said "raised very
serious questions".
The report urges the UK government to look again at all the 134 existing UK
export licences to Egypt to ensure that they do not breach the current
policy, which is not to issue licences where it feels "there is a clear risk
that the proposed export might provoke or prolong regional or internal
conflicts, or which might be used to facilitate internal repression".
The committees also want more detail on a sales licence granted to Israel
earlier this year for the purchase of £7.7bn worth of what is described
as "equipment employing cryptography and software for equipment employing
cryptography".
This one licence granted in February 2013 accounted for well over 50% of the
value of all existing licences to the countries in question.
The committees also comment on military sales to Argentina.
The UK has adopted a restrictive policy for such sales and the committees
note that: "It is reprehensible that the UK government is unwilling to lobby
other (friendly) governments to make the same changes in (their) arms
export policies towards Argentina."
The committees have asked the government to report back and give assurances
that arms export licences to all the countries mentioned are in tune with
policy.
The report concludes: "Whilst the promotion of arms exports and the
upholding of human rights are both legitimate government policies, the
government would do well to acknowledge that there is an inherent conflict
between strongly promoting arms exports to authoritarian regimes whilst
strongly criticising their lack of human rights at the same time, rather
than claiming, as the government continues to do, that these two policies '
are mutually reinforcing'."
'Information security'
"Cryptography" is a term that appears frequently in the arms licensing data.
It appears to refer to technology which can be applied to a variety of tasks
, encapsulating the "dual-use" problem - technology which can be used for
peaceful purposes but which equally could have a security or military role.
A Department for Business, Innovation and Skills spokeswoman said
cryptography was "a means of ensuring information security, ie preventing
unauthorised access to data".
There was, she explained, "a huge range of commercial applications that use
cryptography, from public mobile telephony, online shopping and banking,
through to providing secure networks for businesses and governments.
Commercial applications account for the vast majority of licences under the
cryptography category."
These commercial applications, she stressed did "not raise any concerns with
respect to internal repression or conflict". | a*******d
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