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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030925.12.4-142"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-25-Speech-4-1442
lpv:speaker	lp:Armonia Bordes2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Lutte ouvrière (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". The von Wogau report therefore proposes regulating arms exports and making them more ethical. One might as well try to make murder, plunder or abduction more ethical. The simple fact that the great powers are wasting enormous sums of money on weapons of mass destruction shows that the present organisation of society is barbaric. The governments of the great nations, who are responsible for criminal wars from Iraq to Afghanistan and accomplices of state terrorism in Palestine, would like to deny a number of smaller countries, whose regimes they do not like, access to weapons. They would like to do the same to certain organisations described by them as terrorist, and to the world of organised crime. Even that, however, is proving impossible. In an economy where arms dealers are willing to sell the rope to hang themselves if it makes them a profit, how can they be prevented from bypassing government controls? When the report welcomes the French initiative concerning the submission of a proposal for an International Code on Transparency, moreover, or refers to the European Union Code of Conduct on Arms Exports, that is both odious and ludicrous, since those countries are among the world’s leading arms exporters and are periodically shaken by politico-financial scandals involving highly placed politicians and arms dealers."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Explanation of vote abbreviated in accordance with Rule 137(1) of the Rules of Procedure)"1

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