Italy PM Backs Halting Arms Sales to Saudis
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by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte holds his end-of-year news conference in Rome, Dec. 28, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Alessandro Bianchi.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Friday his government was in favor of halting arms sales to Saudi Arabia and it intended to take a formal position on the matter.
“We are not in favor of the sale of these weapons and so now it is only a question of formalizing this position and acting accordingly,” Conte told reporters at the prime minister’s traditional end-year news conference.
He was answering a question on Italy’s ongoing arms exports to Saudi Arabia in the light of its involvement in the conflict in Yemen and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
