The Wallonia regional government in Belgium has suspended licenses to export munitions, specifically gunpowder, to Israel after the International Court of Justice ruled against it, the Minister of Housing, Christophe Collignon, announced on Tuesday.
The export licenses had been granted at the beginning of 2023 to the PB Clermont munitions factory, located in Engis (Liège) and were suspended by the Minister-President of Wallonia Elio Di Rupo.
“The January 26 order of the International Court of Justice, the main judicial organ of the United Nations, as well as the unacceptable deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip led the Minister-President to temporarily suspend the valid licenses”, Collignon said.
According to the Belgian news website L’Echo, the announcement came after a question by Hélène Ryckmans, an MP with the Ecolo party, on exports of gunpowder, via Antwerp, to Ashdod, an Israeli port close to the Gaza Strip.
read more: https://www.palestinechronicle.com/belgian-region-follows-japan-no-more-munitions-to-israel/
Way to go, Wallonia! ✊️
Btw, tiny Belgium has regional (Minister-)Presidents? Definitely not compensating for anything!
Do no if it a question, but yes. Belgium has regional Minister-présidents.
3 region, 3 communities, 1 nation : 7 governments (actually 6 because Flemish region and Flemish community has merged). That makes 5 Minister-president and 1 Prime minister.
Something to compensate, you said ?