FRANCE REPORTS 30 PERCENT JUMP IN ARMS SALES FOR 2010

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PARIS - France's weapons exports in 2018 were worth €9.1 billion ($10.27 billion), up 30 percent compared to 2017, making last year "one of the best figures of these past 20 years," according to Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly. This figure keeps France one of the top three arms exporters globally after the United States and Russia. Parly explains in the foreword to a report prepared for the French Parliament that "this result is the consequence of the European twist we have given to our export policy." In 2018, 25 percent of France's arms exports were destined for its European partners against an average 10 percent in previous years. The report notes that "these results were obtained in the context of particularly strong competition with the confirmation of US supremacy and the emergence of new major exporters (notably China)." The whole of the second chapter details the procedures to grant export licenses as well as the nation's responsibility as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, as a major arms exporter and as a nuclear power.