Deutsche Welle German radio, In the Joint Conference Church and Development's annual report on arms exports, the GKKE criticized both Germany's continued sales of weapons to developing countries and trouble spots — and its lack of transparency.
The report presented in Berlin revealed that seven years of a Red-Green coalition government has left Germany the world's fourth busiest arms exporter after Russia, the US and France.
Export licenses might have fallen from 4.8 billion euros ($5.7 billion) to 3.8 billion euros between 2003 and 2004, but they still far exceed the figures of the previous decade, when Germany was led by CDU Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
“The SPD-Green government failed to keep its promise to reduce weapons export,” said GKKE President and Catholic Prelate Karl J
