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I'll be supporting this report. Almost a decade ago I presented to this House the first ever report on the Arms Trade, calling for the introduction of a code of conduct on arms sales. In 1998 this groundbreaking measure was introduced. Yet already we see it needs to be strengthened, become legally binding and widened to cover arms brokering, the transit trade and activities of EU nationals outside of the EU.
In the debate the continuing embargo on arms sales to China was argued. It was entirely right to have an embargo after the terrible events of Tiananmen Square in 1989. Yet China is now transformed. The economy is booming, millions are lifted out of poverty. Human rights
albeit far from perfect, have begun to improve. Democratic practices are being introduced at village level.
With the code of conduct this embargo is no longer necessary. China should be treated the same as everyone else. Many arms sales would be forbidden under the code of conduct and rightly so. But it would encourage China to continue its tangible progress on human rights if each transaction was to be judged on its individual merits rather than by a blanket ban."@en1
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