Yamamah<\/em>. Par les temps qui courent, cette activit\u00e9 au service de BAE ne fait plus du tout l’unanimit\u00e9 et elle tend m\u00eame \u00e0 devenir tr\u00e8s g\u00eanante. D’o\u00f9 la mesure envisag\u00e9e, qui confirme que l’incendie BAE continue \u00e0 gronder.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThe Treasury is planning to disband the government’s controversial arms sales department, the Guardian can disclose. The 450-strong defence export services organisation (Deso), based near Oxford Street in London, has long been the target of anti-corruption campaigners and opponents of the arms trade.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe former Treasury cabinet minister Stephen Timms launched proposals earlier this year to close down the secretive unit on the grounds that it subsidises profitable weapons giants such as BAE, Britain’s biggest arms firm. According to Westminster sources, the Treasury’s industrial productivity section argued that the taxpayer should not continue to subsidise an anachronistic department which had gained too much influence within Whitehall.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbLeaked documents seen by the Guardian show that the review was ordered in March by Mr Timms before he left the department. He was replaced last month as chief secretary to the Treasury by Andy Burnham, in Gordon Brown’s new prime ministerial appointments. Des Browne, the defence secretary, was told by Mr Timms before his departure that he was not convinced of Deso’s justification.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbDeso, set up in 1966 when the arms industry was largely state-owned and was mainly concerned with selling off surplus equipment, spends \u00a315m a year directly on helping British arms firms to sell equipment abroad. It also lobbies within Whitehall for export licences for sales to sometimes controversial regimes. Opponents say no other British industry is supported by such a large government-funded machine and that Deso, which is always headed by an arms company executive, relentlessly promotes the industry’s interests within the government.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbNews of the Treasury initiative comes at an awkward time for Deso, which is accused of approving \u00a31bn payments to Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia from BAE. Deso runs the Al Yamamah arms deal for Saudi Arabia in return for a 2% commission. The Saudi transactions are now being investigated by the US justice department after Tony Blair ordered a British police inquiry to be closed down on alleged grounds of national security.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 9 juillet 2007 \u00e0 19H08<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Il y a des signes qui ne trompent pas, selon la formule consacr\u00e9e. L’intention, rapport\u00e9e aujourd’hui par l’in\u00e9vitable Guardian (sp\u00e9cialiste des r\u00e9v\u00e9lations autour du BAE), du d\u00e9partement du Tr\u00e9sor britannique de dissoudre l’agence d’exportation des armements, dite DESO (Defence Export Services [Sales] Organization), est un de ces signes. Comme on le voit par ailleurs, DESO… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3792,5667,3858,6834,6766,4364],"class_list":["post-68990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-bae","tag-bandar","tag-corruption","tag-deso","tag-mod","tag-yamamah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}