Door ajar for Flemish arms Syria

brussels - Flanders wants the export of arms to war countries like Syria and Yemen do not rule out in advance. The Flemish Minister Geert Bourgeois said Tuesday at the parliament that he wants an end to the current policy of imposing a license in advance is useless.

Bourgeois said earlier that for the so-called on-hold policy, which dates from 2010, no legal basis exists. If the policy of the job is, applications for the export of arms to countries such as Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Ukraine again per case.

Include the leftist opposition parties Sp. and a Green showed themselves critically. Tine Soens of the social democratic S. pa was referring to the opinion of a legal expert from the Strategic Goods Control, who writes that there is indeed a legal basis for the current policy.