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"We welcome the initiative for codes of conduct for arms exports. Many of Mr Titley’s proposals and comments in the report represent improvements to the Council’s original report. Nonetheless, we have decided to vote against Mr Titley’s report for the following reasons:
The report means continued recognition of the importance of a strong European military capacity instead of placing the emphasis on the need for disarmament and peace. The report sees arms export controls primarily as a method of avoiding awkward situations for Europe’s military industry and not as a way of achieving disarmament and peace. Moreover, the report discusses European arms exports as a way of solving future local conflicts in the immediate vicinity of Europe.
Despite the request from the Group of the Greens, the rapporteur has also consistently failed to discuss Turkey which, through its membership of NATO, is in practice excluded from the codes of conduct.
The report also means that Europe’s war industry is regarded as an economically important industry, and that is an indefensible perspective on an industry whose primary task is implicitly to kill and annihilate people.
As long as the European Parliament is unable to make the logical connection between the production and sale of arms and the continued global military destruction of the environment and human life, we cannot support reports such as this."@en1
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