© Reuters / Khaled AbdullahMalnourished Yemeni children receive treatment
Germany has already suspended issuing future weapons export licenses and has moved to halt all arms sales, while France said on Monday said it will decide soon on sanctions over Khashoggi's killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last month.
Saudi Arabia is one of the world's biggest weapons importers. It heads a military coalition fighting in a civil war in Yemen in which tens of thousands of people have died and caused a major humanitarian catastrophe.
"With the continued deterioration of the already terrible situation in Yemen and the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, we are now in a new situation," said Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen in a statement.
Denmark issued ten such approvals last year, according to the ministry. Already given approvals will not be suspended, a spokesman said.
Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday praised Saudi Arabia for helping to lower oil prices but pressure intensified for the United States to impose tougher sanctions on its Middle East ally over Khashoggi's murder.
Comment: It's quite telling of the priorities of those involved in the Saudi-led Western-backed war on Yemen - which has been going on for 3 years - that it took the murder of a high profile journalist before any government even thought to reconsider their position:
- Saudi Arabia and Western Allies Continue War on Poverty-Stricken Yemen; Yemen Fights Back
- Tulsi Gabbard lays smack-down on Trump, says being Saudi Arabia's 'bitch' is not 'America First'
- First real response to Khashoggi dismemberment: Germany suspends arms sales to Saudi Arabia
- Macron squirms when asked about France-Saudi arms sales
- Oxfam slams London's 'incoherent' policy of supplying Saudi Arabia with weapons to bomb Yemen-based UK humanitarian projects
- Spain to 'honor' sale of 400 bombs to Saudi Arabia despite halting it over rights groups outcry
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