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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday Germany will not deliver Eurofighter combat aircraft to Saudi Arabia in the near future. Saudi Arabia leads a coalition that has been battling Houthis in Yemen since 2015. The war has killed tens of thousands of people and left millions hungry.
“We will give no decision on the delivery of Eurofighter jets to Saudi Arabia any time soon,” Scholz told reporters on the second day of a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Earlier on Wednesday, Germany’s SZ newspaper cited an internal government document as saying that “applications for export licences for Saudi Arabia will be postponed until the end of the war in Yemen”.
