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are particularly popular submarines and tanks: Germany more and more money earned from export of arms. Since 2005, exports have more than doubled, now reckons the Peace Research Institute. The opposition wants to control the arms trade in the future better.

Stockholm / Berlin - Germany is not at arms export world champion, but at least the number three. Primarily through the sale of submarines and armored vehicles, the Federal Republic of its arms exports in the last five years reported more than doubled, the Peace Research Institute SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) in its annual report. Accordingly, the German world market share 2005-2009 increased to eleven percent.

Most of the money to make weapons but still the U.S.. From there, get 30 percent of global arms deliveries, said the peace researcher. Russia is a world market share of 23 percent.

The opposition called for, given the rise in German arms exports, a right to the Bundestag in such transactions. The new figures showed that "Germany needs a much stronger arms control and stricter criteria for arms exports," said Green Party leader Claudia Roth, the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger". The Parliament must finally be given the right to control the federal government on arms exports. That is standard in other countries, said Roth. According to the Stockholm International Peace

researchers Turkey, Greece and South Africa are the main buyers of German armaments companies. While most German arms deliveries were in NATO countries, but "if Germany sold to countries like India or Iran arms, must be the federal government can ask yourself how you want to mate with a responsible foreign policy, "criticizing Roth.

For in such an uncertain regions admit it is a" powder keg "situation. With weapons exports would spiral of armament further turned up, said Roth . In Iran there is a risk that the exported tank engines were used against their own people.

Researchers warn of arms race

The Stockholm International Peace Research warned of an increased arms race in areas of tension such as the Middle East, North Africa, South America and South -. Thus, and Southeast Asia have the arms trade in South America the last five years from 2000 to 2004, by 150 percent. Even in South Asia could the current wave of "destabilizing the region and jeopardize decades of peaceful development," warned the institute.

identified worldwide, researchers in the last five years, an increase of trade in missiles, fighter planes, weapons and ammunition by 22 percent. Governments bought extremely expensive, especially combat aircraft. Their share of the weapons do business from 27 percent, according to the Institute. "States with appropriate resources have ordered large quantities. The reaction of rivals from the particular region was then, is to order as well," said Paul Holtom SIPRI research chief.

As an example of large aircraft operations, the researchers called the sale of 72 American F-16 machines to the United Arab Emirates and 52 of these aircraft to Israel. South Korea could be 40 F-15 jets delivered from the U.S..

lead the list of weapons buyer to China and India. For the first time also dive Singapore and Algeria among the ten largest arms importers. The Swedish researchers reported but does not provide figures for the financial value of transactions.

Sipri meets regularly to higher numbers of German arms exports than the federal government because the institute barter and trade in used army equipment and "gifts" with estimates in the statistics involving.

SPD sees "nothing wrong" with supplies to NATO partners

According Sipri made in the last five years of war ships 44 percent of all German exports and armored vehicles from 27 per cent of exports. 2009, Turkey signed an agreement to license the production of six German U-boats of the class U214 worth two billion euros. Greece had four ordered U-boats because of debts of 524 million euros is not delivered, accepted but then the supply of three submarines manufactured under license.

Vice leader of the Left, Jan van Aken, called the German arms exports rise "awful" and called for a ban on exports. In this country, "there must be no jobs, based on the fact that people die somewhere else," he told the Frankfurter Rundschau.

In contrast, the security spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group, Rainer Arnold, the newspaper that he could "nothing objectionable" in effort to find if German companies supplied with an increasingly large part of weapons to NATO partners. "The second view is worthwhile," he said. For deliveries to other countries, one must be "very critical". He look at exports of small arms out exactly as in Arab states. On the other hand, these countries should also terrorism Said Arnold fight.