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"Mr President, the report under discussion refers to an issue of huge strategic, political and economic importance. Indeed, the production of and trade in arms secures huge excess profits for multinational big business which, with privatisation, now controls these sectors. However, quite apart from the profits, by supplying arms, producer countries also safeguard political control of purchasing countries, both through the rake-off paid by the arms industries to the governments of these countries and through control of their equipment. Thus, all means are being used to promote the creation of conditions of demand and consumption of arms, by fomenting tension, armed clashes and massacres of or infighting among peoples. The demand and consumption of these products also concerns the producer countries. In fact, as we know, our governments are constantly strengthening both the repressive mechanisms used against the burgeoning demonstrations by our peoples against the anti-grass roots policy and conflict prevention, crisis management and the fight against terrorism, in other words military intervention the world over.
All this, which is expressed through the constant militarisation of the European Union, in ever closer cooperation with ΝΑΤΟ, calls for huge quantities of arms. That is why Mr Solana proposes increasing the military forces. These developments, of course, are fraught with huge dangers for the peoples of the European Union and for mankind as a whole within the framework of intra-imperialist rivalry. However, they satisfy the speculative appetites of the political-military-industrial network which, especially after September 11, now has absolute control over US policy and is also strengthening its influence in the countries of the European Union.
The report being debated, however good the rapporteur's intentions may be, does not refer to these questions, or rather it conceals them. Like all the previous reports, it formulates wishes and proposals which will never be applied. That is why what is needed is not codes of conduct, compliance with which depends on the good will of the Member States, but the introduction of mandatory rules and controls and the gradual reduction in the production, movement and use of arms, pending their definitive prohibition. We need to convert war industries into peace industries. These are the demands of the movement for peace. We support them, which is why we shall not vote for the report."@en1
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