Last year, the United Arab Emirates accounted for the largest share of Swedish arms exports. In total, Sweden sold weapons worth just over six billion kronor to the country.
The agreement with the country was signed back in 2016 and concerns the sale of the Global Eye airborne radar system.
Requires a ban
The Gulf state has also been accused of providing weapons to the RSF militia group, one of the parties in the civil war in Sudan - in violation of the UN arms embargo.
Now MP spokesperson Amanda Lind and the party's EU Commissioner Isabella Lövin are demanding that Sweden's exports to the United Arab Emirates be stopped immediately:
"The war could not have continued without the support of other countries. The most crucial external actor is the United Arab Emirates, which supplies RSF with weapons, money and logistics," they write in an opinion piece in SvD and continue:
"Despite this, Sweden and the EU are now choosing to deepen their relations with the United Arab Emirates."
Increase the pressure
According to the environmentalists, Sweden is thereby actively contributing to "legitimizing and strengthening a regime that supports ethnic cleansing."
In addition to stopping arms exports, MP wants Sweden to push to pause the EU's free trade agreement with the country and for the government to increase diplomatic pressure against the warring parties in Sudan.
"Sweden cannot simultaneously talk about human rights and give sour cream to those who enable mass murder," they write.
Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) said earlier this week that there is nothing to indicate that Swedish weapons are being used in the conflict in Sudan.
