Senior US lawmakers have called on the UK to live up to its “moral responsibility” and help end both countries “complicity” in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, in a sign of the pressure the UK will face in Washington to join the Biden administration and end weapons sales to the kingdom. Senator Chris Murphy, another Democrat who has led the push to end offensive US weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, told the Guardian he knew many in the UK “share our concerns about weapons sales fuelling the war in Yemen”. “The UK facet of the Saudi deal raises complications that the Biden administration isn’t ready to deal with yet,” said US defence analyst Loren Thompson. “This administration does not like the government of Saudi Arabia, and holds it in low regard. In Washington, the Biden administration has yet to fulfil a promise to release an unclassified report into the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Source: The Guardian February 12, 2021 04:52 UTC