Arms for Croatia
Goods category: War materiel
Switzerland was one of Croatia’s largest arms suppliers during the war of 1992–1994; many exports were not recorded in the war materiel statistics.
Effect of the proposed War Materiel Act revision
Under the new Article 22b, the Federal Council could depart from all the licensing criteria in Article 22a under vaguely defined ‘exceptional circumstances’. The public would not have to be informed. For Croatia, as a current Annex 2 state, Article 22a paragraph 2bis would remove the exclusion criterion based on participation in an armed conflict and make approval the rule. The Federal Council could refuse a licence only in exceptional cases.
Countries
CroatiaConflicts
Time period
1994
Sources
- SoZ, 14.08.1994; Jane's Defence Weekly, August 1994