Annex 13: Selected arms export licence
approvals of arms or components of arms which might be used to
facilitate internal repression in the period 1 October
2012 to 30 September 2013
In its 2013 Human Rights and Democracy Report,[551]P
published in April 2014, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office identified
28 Countries of concern where the FCO had the most serious human
rights concerns. The Countries of concern were: Afghanistan, Belarus,
Burma, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Cuba, Democratic
People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea,
Fiji, Iran, Iraq, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories,
Libya, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri
Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
and Zimbabwe. The Committees on Arms Export Controls has identified
an additional 5 countries that are of concern to it: these are
Argentina, Bahrain, Egypt, Tunisia and Ukraine. The following
table provides details of licences authorised by the Government
in the period 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2013 for equipment
that might be used to facilitate internal repression for the FCO's
Countries of concern and 4 of the Committees' additional countries
of concern (Argentina is dealt with separately in Annex 14). The
Committees' questions on certain of the arms export licence approvals
listed below and the Government's answers are in Annex 1above.
| Country | Examples of approved arms exports from 1 October 2012 until 31 December 2013
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| Afghanistan |
Assault rifles, body armour, components for assault rifles, components for body armour, components for pistols, cryptographic software, equipment employing cryptography, gun mountings, machine guns, pistols, small arms ammunition, software for equipment employing cryptography.
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| Bahrain | Anti-riot/ballistic shields, assault rifles, components for assault rifles, components for machine guns, components for sniper rifles, components for weapon mountings, equipment employing cryptography, equipment for the use of assault rifles, equipment for the use of military communications equipment, general military vehicle components, gun mountings, gun silencers, machine guns, military communications equipment, pistols, rifles, small arms ammunition, sniper rifles, software for the use of equipment employing cryptography, technology for the use of equipment employing cryptography, weapon night sights, weapon sight mounts, weapon sights.
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| Belarus | Components for equipment employing cryptography.
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| Central African Republic (CAR)
| All-wheel drive vehicles with ballistic protection.
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| China | Components for equipment employing cryptography, components for ground vehicle military communications equipment, components for military communications equipment, cryptographic software, equipment employing cryptography, military communications equipment, small arms ammunition, software for cryptographic software, software for equipment employing cryptography, software for the use of equipment employing cryptography, technology for equipment employing cryptography, technology for military communications equipment, technology for the production of military communications equipment, weapon sights.
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| Colombia | Anti-riot/ballistic shields, body armour, equipment employing cryptography, equipment for the use of weapon night sights, radio jamming equipment, software for radio jamming equipment, weapon night sights, weapon sight mounts, weapon sights.
|
| Democratic Republic of Congo
(check)
| Cryptographic software, equipment employing cryptography, military support vehicles, software for equipment employing cryptography, technology for equipment employing cryptography.
|
| Egypt | Acoustic devices for riot control, all-wheel drive vehicles with ballistic protection, assault rifles, body armour, combat shotguns, components for assault rifles, components for body armour, components for ground vehicle military communications equipment, components for machine guns, components for military communications equipment, components for pistols, components for sniper rifles, equipment employing cryptography, equipment for the use of military communications equipment, general military vehicle components, ground vehicle military communications equipment, military communications equipment, military support vehicles, pistols, small arms ammunition, sniper rifles, software for equipment employing cryptography, weapon sights.
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| Eritrea | Body armour.
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| Iran | Equipment employing cryptography.
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| Iraq | Anti-riot/ballistic shields, body armour, components for all-wheel drive vehicles with ballistic protection, components for body armour, components for civil riot control agent protection equipment, components for military communications equipment, components for pistols, components for weapon mountings, cryptographic software, equipment employing cryptography, equipment for the use of ground vehicle military communications equipment, equipment for the use of military communications equipment, equipment for the use of weapon night sights, equipment for the use of weapon sights, ground vehicle military communications equipment, software for equipment employing cryptography, technology for equipment employing cryptography, technology for equipment for the use of weapon sights, weapon night sights, weapon sights.
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| Israel and the OPTs
| All-wheel drive vehicles with ballistic protection, anti-riot/ballistic shields, body armour, components for all-wheel drive vehicles with ballistic protection, components for body armour, components for civil riot control agent protection equipment, components for military communications equipment, components for military support vehicles, cryptographic software, equipment employing cryptography, equipment for the use of weapon sights, general military vehicle components, military communications equipment, military communications software, military support vehicles, small arms ammunition, software for equipment employing cryptography, technology for equipment employing cryptography, technology for military communications software, technology for small arms ammunition, weapon night sights, weapon sights.
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| Libya | All-wheel drive vehicle with ballistic protection, anti-riot/ballistic shields, assault rifles, combat shotguns, command communications control and intelligence software, components for all-wheel drive vehicles with ballistic protection, components for assault rifles, components for body armour, components for pistols, cryptographic software, equipment employing cryptography, equipment for the use of assault rifles, equipment for the use of pistols, hand grenades, military communications equipment, military support vehicles, pistols, small arms ammunition, smoke/pyrotechnic ammunition, software for equipment employing cryptography, software for military communications equipment, technology for equipment employing cryptography.
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| Pakistan | All-wheel drive vehicles with ballistic protection, anti-riot/ballistic shields, body armour, components for all-wheel drive vehicles with ballistic protection, components for military communications equipment, components for mortar bombs, components for sniper rifles, cryptographic software, equipment employing cryptography, equipment for the use of sniper rifles, equipment for the production of assault rifles, equipment for the use of weapon sights, general military vehicle components, gun mountings, gun silencers, military communications equipment, pistols, radio jamming equipment, small arms ammunition, sniper rifles, software for equipment employing cryptography, technology for equipment employing cryptography, technology for sniper rifles, technology for the use of weapon sights, weapon night sights, weapon sight mounts, weapon sights.
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| Russia | Body armour, components for body armour, civil riot control agent protection equipment, components for rifles, components for small arms ammunition, components for sniper rifles, equipment employing cryptography, equipment for the use of military communications equipment, equipment for the use of sniper rifles, general military vehicle components, gun mountings, gun silencers, rifles, small arms ammunition, sniper rifles, software for equipment employing cryptography, weapon sights.
|
| Saudi Arabia |
Anti-riot/ballistic shields, body armour, command communications control and intelligence software, components for all-wheel drive vehicles with ballistic protection, components for body armour, components for ground vehicle military communications equipment, components for machine guns, components for military combat vehicles, components for military communications equipment, components for sniper rifles, components for water cannons, components for weapon sight mounts, crowd control ammunition, cryptographic software, CS hand grenades, equipment employing cryptography, equipment for the use of military communications equipment, equipment for the use of weapon sights, general military vehicle components, ground vehicle military communications equipment, gun mountings, gun silencers, hand grenades, machine guns, military combat vehicles, military communications equipment, military support vehicles, night vision googles, radio jamming equipment, small arms ammunition, sniper rifles, software enabling equipment to function as military communications equipment, software for equipment employing cryptography, software for ground vehicle military communications equipment, software for military communications equipment, software for radio jamming equipment, tear gas/irritant ammunition, technology for ground vehicle military communications equipment, technology for military communications equipment, wall/door breaching projectiles/ammunition, weapon night sights, weapon sight mounts, weapon sights.
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| Somalia | All-wheel drive vehicles with ballistic protection, body armour, components for body armour, components for military support vehicles, cryptographic software, equipment employing cryptography, military support vehicles, software for equipment employing cryptography.
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| Sri Lanka | Assault rifles, body armour, combat shotguns, components for assault rifles, components for body armour, components for pistols, components for rifles, components for small arms ammunition, components for sniper rifles, pistols, rifles, small arms ammunition, sniper rifles, weapon night sights, weapon sights.
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| Sudan | Cryptographic software, equipment employing cryptography, software for equipment employing cryptography.
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| Sudan, South |
Components for military support vehicles, cryptographic software, equipment employing cryptography, military support vehicles, software for equipment employing cryptography.
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| Syria | All-wheel drive vehicles with ballistic protection, components for all-wheel drive vehicles with ballistic protection.
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| Tunisia | Components for military support vehicles, equipment employing cryptography, military support vehicles, weapon night sights.
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| Ukraine | All-wheel drive vehicles with ballistic protection, components for all-wheel drive vehicles with ballistic protection, components for rifles, components for sniper rifles, components for sporting guns, equipment employing cryptography, gun silencers, rifles, small arms ammunition, sniper rifles, sporting guns, weapon sights.
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| Uzbekistan |
Body armour, components for body armour, equipment employing cryptography.
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| Vietnam | Components for military communications equipment, equipment employing cryptography, equipment for the use of weapon sights, military communications equipment, technology for equipment for the use of weapon sights, weapon night sights, weapon sight mounts, weapon sights,
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| Zimbabwe | Cryptographic software, equipment employing cryptography, software for equipment employing cryptography, technology for cryptographic software,
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Source: Department for Business, Innovation and
Skills, Strategic Export Controls: Country Pivot Report 1 October
2012-31 December 2012, Strategic Export Controls: Country Pivot
Report 1 January 2013-31 March 2013; Country Pivot Report 1 April
2013-30 June 2013; and Strategic Export Controls: Country Pivot
Report 1 July 2013-30 September 2013
551 Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Human Rights
and Democracy: The 2013 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Report,
Cm 8342, April 2014 Back
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