{"id":30356,"date":"2021-03-30T11:36:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T02:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/30\/new-zealand-approved-military-exports-to-saudis-yemen-war-ally-uae"},"modified":"2021-03-30T11:36:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T02:36:14","slug":"new-zealand-approved-military-exports-to-saudis-yemen-war-ally-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30356","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand approved military exports to Saudis&#8217; Yemen war ally UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts have questioned how New Zealand can be sure its military exports are not being used in Yemen<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) approved export permits for military equipment that was sent to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of Saudi Arabia\u2019s partners in the war in Yemen, in 2018 and 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/439445\/mfat-approved-military-equipment-export-permits-to-uae-land-forces\">RNZ has reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Experts told the national broadcaster the information added to concerns that New Zealand may have contributed to war crimes in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia has been leading an offensive against Houthi rebels since 2015.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/30\/new-zealand-approved-military-exports-to-saudis-yemen-war-ally-uae\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts have questioned how New Zealand can be sure its military exports are not being used in YemenNew Zealand\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) approved export permits for military equipment that was sent to the United Arab Emirates (UAE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1748,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,398,1039,42,943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-saudi-arabia","category-united-arab-emirates","category-world-news","category-yemen"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30357,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30356\/revisions\/30357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}