The Defence Export Services Organisation is the unit of the UK Ministry of Defence which helps UK companies sell their military equipment and services overseas. Through DESO, the UK taxpayer subsidises the export of arms into areas of conflict and to governments that abuse human rights. The trade in military equipment also damages economic development at each of global, regional and local economic levels.

The undersigned call on the UK government to close the Defence Export Services Organisation and not to transfer its functions elsewhere in the public sector or to allocate public funds to enable them to be undertaken in the private sector.

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If your organisation would like to support the statement, please contact Ann Feltham at the CAAT office. National organisations who have signed the statement so far include:

Green Party of England and Wales
Liberal Democrats
Plaid Cymru
Social Democratic and Labour Party

ACORD
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation
Burma Campaign
Campaign Against Depleted Uranium
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases
Conscience - the Peace Tax Campaign
Corporate Responsibility Coalition
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Jesuit Refugee Service
Justice Not Vengeance
Landmine Action
Liberal Democrats for Peace & Security
MedAct
Movement for the Abolition of War
One World Action
Oxford Research Group
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Pax Christi
PeaceDirect
Peace Pledge Union
Progressio (formerly Catholic Institute for International Relations)
Quaker Peace & Social Witness
Scientists for Global Responsibility
SPEAK
TAPOL - Indonesia human rights campaign
UNA Wales
Waging Peace
War Resisters International

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The campaign 'Call the Shots' tackles the political influence of the arms industry within Government:

Part 2 of the 'Call the Shots' campaign calls for the closure of DESO:

Campaign Against Arms Trade, 11 Goodwin St, Finsbury Park, London N4 3HQ
Tel: +44-(0)20 7281 0297 | Fax: +44-(0)20 7281 4369