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Europe becomes US's largest arms importer for 1st time in 20 years - SIPRI

Moscow, Mar 10 (UNI) Europe overtook the Middle East as the largest importer of weapons from the United States from 2020-2024, claiming this title for the first time in two decades, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said on Monday.
"For the first time in two decades, the largest share of US arms exports in 2020–24 went to Europe (35 per cent) rather than the Middle East (33 per cent)," SIPRI said.
At the same time, Saudi Arabia turned to be the largest consumer of US weapons among individual countries, accounting for 12%, SIPRI said.
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