Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-18-Speech-3-082"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-06-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Security strategy for the European Union, including implementation of the United Nations programme to combat the illegal trade in light weapons2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030618.7.3-082"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-06-18-Speech-3-0832
lpv:speaker	lp:Pernille Frahm2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3 unknown; Socialistisk Folkeparti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it is strange to hear all the talk about European defence when we do not even have a common European foreign policy. I think that that is the task to which we first have to put our minds, and I should like to see us beginning to talk about what our priorities are to be. I think the main priority should be for the EU to be the mainstay of an international legal order and of international agreements and for it to be among those backing international weapons control. Some of those priorities have been given all too little weight for many years, and it is an obvious task for a specifically cooperative organisation like the EU, which is based upon agreements between old enemies. We must continue that tradition, extend it to the international level and ensure that we become the mainstay of the UN so that international law again comes to prevail. I should like to hear what the Council’s and the Commission’s plans are in anticipation of the UN meeting in July on the control of light weapons, for this is one of those areas in which the EU could have a role to play. We are of course one of the main producers of these weapons, and we also try to control them. We have a code of conduct from 1998 – mentioned, I believe, by Commissioner Patten – but, of course, weapons prove, all the same, to end up in the wrong hands and on the wrong markets. We need to follow this agreement up, with the possibility of monitoring weapons throughout their life cycle. We can do this with dairy cows in the EU. Would it not be marvellous if we could do the same with weapons? What plans exist for doing so?"@en1

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