Britain is the world's biggest arms exporter

Tre paesi, Australia (11 miliardo dollari), Canada (10 miliardo dollari) e Pakistan (sei miliardo dollari), alzati i posti dell'importazione, le figure di DSO hanno mostrato. (estremità) he.rk KUNA 181400 l'8 giugno NNNN

clipped from www.timesonline.co.uk London Britain was the world’s biggest arms seller last year, accounting for a third of global arms exports, the Government’s trade promotion organisation said. UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) said that arms exporters had added £9.7 billion in new business last year, giving them a larger share of global arms exports than the United States. “As demonstrated by this outstanding export performance, the UK has a first-class defence industry, with some of the world’s most technologically sophisticated companies,” Digby Jones, the Minister for Trade and Investment, said. UKTI said that the figures were boosted by orders for Eurofighter Typhoon jets from Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest arms buyer, which has imported $31 billion (£16 million) in weapons over the past five years. There were also orders from Oman and Trinidad and Tobago for offshore patrol vessels. Selling weapons of war is nothing to brag about. Am I the only UK person reading this to feel thoroughly ashamed if that statistic?