Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-25-Speech-3-117"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-09-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:CFSP (Common Foreign and Security Policy)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020925.5.3-117"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-25-Speech-3-1182
lpv:speaker	lp:Nelly Maes2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; G/EFA (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; België Spirit (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3,3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the time allocated to us does not allow us to congratulate our rapporteurs, Mr Brok and Mr Titley, and to comment on what we are all agreed. I will have to keep a check on myself, although I should like to say that many of the cries from the heart pull on my heart strings. Although we are all agreed on peace, we sometimes question the methods and we sometimes doubt the ways in which peace is reached, and, above all, we do not want to accept the consequences. After all, we do not have a Common Foreign and Security Policy, and we need this in the first pillar with input from Parliament. I should also like to comment on Mr Titley’s excellent report concerning the arms trade. In his explanatory statement, Mr Titley identified the bottlenecks that are still troubling us at the moment. I should, above all, like to focus on the bottleneck caused by failure to implement various regulations, the first one being the Code of Conduct. Although it is in place, it is not enforceable, not at European level or in our countries. Various countries are yet to incorporate this Code of Conduct in their own legislation and add the necessary penal provisions. I should particularly like to point out that even a country such as Belgium, which incorporates this Code of Conduct in a law – and this law is being praised here – violates this law on a daily basis. Belgium supplies weapons to countries such as Nepal, while Germany, for example, had refused to do so. This is in contravention of the Code of Conduct. I should like to point out that Belgium supplies weapons to Pakistan, India, and a raft of these so-called sensitive countries. And this brings us to the point which Mr Titley flagged. The sensitive countries are the most delicate ones, but they are also the best customers ..."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The President cut the speaker off)"1

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