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PARIS cheap Canada Goose (Reuters) https://www.canadagooseoutleta.com buy canada goose jacket cheap France has shown no concrete signs of reducing or suspending weapons sales to a Saudi led coalition canada goose store despite warnings that some of its Canada Goose sale weapons could be used in the war in Yemen, sources aware of the issue said on Friday.

The canada goose kingdom is leading a coalition formed in 2015 to fight the Iran aligned Houthi group that controls most of northern Yemen and the capital Sanaa, in a war that has killed more than 10,000 people and displaced more than 3 million.

The French administration under President Emmanuel Macron has drawn criticism in particular from rights groups over its support of the kingdom actions and allowing weapons it has sold buy canada goose jacket to Riyadh potentially to be used in its Yemen operations.

is a desire to show that France is doing something. It says some deliveries have been suspended in canadian goose jacket the past, but there is nothing to show canada goose uk shop canada goose outleta that, a source close to the matter said.

Two other sources echoed those comments.

According to officials from the previous French government and diplomats, Jean Marc Ayrault, foreign minister from 2016 2017, had already warned in an official letter to the then prime minister canada goose factory sale of a possible escalation in Yemen and of the consequences canada goose black friday sale of weapon sales to those involved in canada goose coats the Canada Goose online conflict.

Other European states uk canada goose have begun to limit military ties with the Saudi led coalition. Norway has suspended sales to the United Arab Emirates and Germany, as part of a deal creating a new government, uk canada goose outlet plans to not supply arms to anyone directly involved in Yemen.

Germans reservations seem to be Canada Goose Online making the French uncomfortable, said a former senior government official.

DON SELL WEAPONS ANYHOW While Paris has good ties with Saudi Arabia and the UAE, it has grown increasingly concerned by Canada Goose Parka the worsening humanitarian situation; in December Macron called for a lifting of a blockade on Yemen.

France Foreign Ministry declined to comment.

A French diplomatic canada goose uk outlet source said Paris applied export controls vetting deals on a case by case Canada Goose Coats On Sale analysis that takes canada goose clearance sale into canada goose coats on sale consideration, among other things, the nature canada goose uk black friday of the materials, the end user, human rights and regional situation.

He declined to say if any sales to the Saudi led coalition had been suspended.

told that there is a closer look at French arms exports to the coalition, but there is no Canada Goose Outlet information on either the suspension or cancellation of contracts, a second source said.

Among France arms sales to Saudi Arabia was a $3 billion Saudi funded contract to the Lebanese canada goose clearance army that collapsed, but was in Canada Goose Jackets part appropriated by Riyadh.

In November it sealed a contract for warships to the UAE.

Defence Minister Florence Parly on Friday sought to play down her country role and did not say whether Paris would review its stance.

could have imagined the outcome of this conflict in Yemen? she told cheap canada goose uk France Inter radio. use of weapons, once delivered, is normally restricted, but conflicts can evolve, she said.