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"It is disturbing to note the major rush towards the militarisation of the European Union. The last speaker said that a small-scale NATO is emerging. Many Members, especially citizens in neutral countries, have no say on whether this is what they want. In my own country the vast majority of people are against the militarisation of Europe, especially a Europe that will have nuclear weapons at its disposal, a Europe where the arms industries are exporting arms to places around the world where there are mass and gross abuses of human rights.
If we look at the track record of the European Union on its involvement in many conflict areas around the world, we see that the arms industries have been part of that problem. We need to address that. With respect to the neutral countries, some of the wording in this resolution is extremely ambiguous in relation to collective defence. We in the neutral countries are being told that collective defence is not going to be part of it, but of course when we get in so far then there will be no going out.
Finally, I was quite amazed to hear Mr Newton Dunn cite the RUC as a good example of policing. If you look at the human rights organisations around the world that have amassed damning reports on that organisation, it is incredible to put it up as an example. I am sure there are good examples, but the RUC is not one of them."@en1
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