Arms Trade: Kazakhstan

(asked on 9th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has revised its licensing of military goods for export to Kazakhstan in the context of protests in Kazakhstan in January 2022.


Answered by
Ranil Jayawardena Portrait
Ranil Jayawardena
This question was answered on 22nd February 2022

All licences – to all markets – are kept under careful and continual review and we are able to suspend, refuse or revoke licences as circumstances require. An export licence will not be granted (or, if extant, it would be revoked) if it is incompatible with any of the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria. This includes Criterion 2a, which assesses whether there is a clear risk that the items might be used to commit or facilitate internal repression.

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