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Spain will go ahead with the controversial delivery of 400 laser-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia, engaged in a bloody conflict in Yemen, Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said Thursday. "In the end, the decision is to deliver these bombs to honour a contract dating from 2015," Borrell said on Spain's Onda Cero radio. The government had announced a week ago that it would block delivery of the weapons - for which longtime ally Riyadh has already paid 9.2 million euros ($10.7 million).
That announcement came after an air strike in August on a crowded market in part of northern Yemen held by Huthi rebels that killed 40 children. But Defence Minister Margarito Robles mooted a U-turn on the arms deal on Monday.
Asked Wednesday about criticism from humanitarian groups over the deadly bombs, Borrell said they had "extraordinary precision of less than a metre (yard)" and did not cause collateral damage. Cancellation of the deal would jeopardise a much larger order for five Corvette warships worth 1.8 billion euros, to be built by Spain's Navantia shipyard in the southern region of Andalusia, with thousands of jobs at stake.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2018

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