Israel responds hard to the decision of the Government of Spain to unilaterally terminate the controversial contract for the purchase of bullets to an Israeli company for more than six million euros. The Benjamín Netanyahu Executive condemns that Spain has canceled the commercial agreement with the Israeli company IMI Systems for the acquisition ammunition and has also affected that with this what the Cabinet of Pedro Sánchez is doing is to leave aside the security “for political purposes.”
“Israel firmly condemns the Spanish government decision to unilaterally break a contract signed with the company IMI Systems and its announcement that you will refrain from future defense agreement with Israeli companies,” a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry told EP.
In the opinion of the Israeli Executive, “the Spanish government is sacrificing security considerations for political purposes and continues to be on the wrong side of the history against the Jewish state that is defending terrorist attacks on seven fronts,” the spokesman lamented.
The dissemination of the Ammunition Purchase Contract for the Civil Guard worth 6,642,900 has shaken Spanish politics this week and has endangered the government coalition. Interior took advantage of Holy Week to publish the contract on the contracting platform, after having promised that it would annul it, which sat badly in La Moncloa and unleashed the indignation of the government’s minority partner, add. One of its members, IU, even pointed to the possibility of leaving the government.
Although Interior has claimed economic issues to maintain the contract-it said that the cancellation forces to pay in any case the value of the material, without receiving it-in the end the criteria of the presidency of Government has been imposed, which this Thursday has issued back and has ordered the ministry directed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska to annul the commercial agreement.
