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"Mr President, I congratulate Mr Titley on his work and acknowledge his endeavours to include the point of view of civil society on arms exports.
I would, however, mention certain negative points: firstly, light weapons. The UN Conference in July was a failure: in my opinion, the EU should commit itself resolutely once more to enforcing a reduction. As regards transparency, I feel that this is still too superficial and that Parliamentary scrutiny should be obligatory for arms exports.
Then there is no reference to the OCCAT Agreement which actually protects industrial cooperation and is the basis for laws such as Italy’s which make it possible to export arms without infringing human rights rules. Then there is an arms exports control policy which must be in line with European common foreign policy.
In short, I consider the Titley report to be important, but I feel – this is my point of view and is not a criticism of the Titley report – that the European Union should, in these tragic times, set itself the target of disarmament, not rearmament."@en1
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