Saudi Arabia using UK-made cluster bombs in Yemen, Fallon to confirm

The Government is to confirm Saudi Arabia is using British-made cluster bombs in Yemen, Sky sources say.

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon is expected to make a statement on the issue in the House of Commons later.

A spokesman for No. 10 said that the Government was taking allegations that British cluster bombs were being used "very seriously" and that the issue had been raised with the Saudi-led coalition.

Last week, the new Prime Minister of the controversial rebel Houthi government which has been set-up in Yemen accused the UK of war crimes.

"They have sold cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia," he quoted in his office in the capital Sana'a. "They know the Saudis are going to drop them on Yemen ... in Sa'adah and in Sana'a and other provinces according to Sky News.

"I don't think they are guilty of war crimes, I believe so. They are participating in the bombing of Yemen people."

Britain agreed to stop using and selling cluster bombs around six years ago. 

The words of the Convention on Cluster Munitions also state that signatories will "never under any circumstances assist, encourage or induce" anyone to use such munitions. 

However, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are believed to have British-made cluster bombs bought in the 1980s and 1990s.

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