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PEACE campaigners have hit out at Britain’s plans to negotiate the sale of military aircraft to the authoritarian regime in Kazakhstan.
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) said Britain has already licensed the sale of at least £6.5 million of weapons to the repressive state, including sniper rifles and gun sights.
The group said that diplomats and representatives of the RAF are negotiating with the Kazakh authorities for the sale of A400M military transport aircraft manufactured by Airbus.
Expanding Britain’s nuclear capability increases the risk of nuclear confrontation. It does not keep us safe – it makes us a target, argues CAROL TURNER
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE