Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-10-04-Speech-3-323"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Arms trade code of conduct (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001004.12.3-323"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-04-Speech-3-3242
lpv:speaker	lp:Jacques F. Poos2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Parti ouvrier socialiste luxembourgeois (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 quaestor; Parliament's Bureau (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Quaestors (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 quaestor; European Parliament (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (2000-03-08--2002-01-16)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, special attention deserves to be paid to the European Parliament’s first report on the export of arms since the Member States adopted a Code of Conduct on this matter in 1998. If the European Union’s action beyond its borders is to be coherent in the way that the European Parliament never tires of asking that it should be, must not the priority of the arms-exporting States, in a sphere ultra-sensitive to public opinion, be that of simultaneously paying attention to human rights, conflict prevention and the European Union’s external security? Our rapporteur, Mr Titley, is proposing a bold resolution to Parliament. He emphasises the entirely inadequate nature of the code of conduct which, it should be remembered, is non-binding. The code ought therefore to be made legally binding. Controls must be tightened up, and the ultimate use to which exported arms are put must be strictly monitored In a word, the trade in death must stop. The supervisory mechanism must above all be extended to the light, small calibre arms used in a great many regional and ethnic conflicts throughout the world, which are often turned against the civil and military personnel of EU countries. Finally, Mr Titley proposes cooperating with the United States – and why not, I might add, with Russia and China too? – in order to devise a common approach to conventional arms export controls similar to that established for chemical weapons control. The five permanent members of the Security Council, who are supposed to watch over our security, should listen to these proposals and negotiate an arrangement truly worthy of the twenty-first century as quickly as possible."@en1

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