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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-01-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Seventh and eighth annual reports on arms exports (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070117.8.3-130"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-01-17-Speech-3-1312
lpv:speaker	lp:Georgios Karatzaferis2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-21--2007-09-25)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-09-25)3 member; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-01-19--2007-02-14)3 unknown; Laikos Orthodoxos Synagermos - G. Karatzaferis (2005-11-24--2007-09-25)3 member; AFET (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2007-09-25)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, there are three rules concerning arms. The first rule is that arms are manufactured in order to kill people; they are not manufactured in order to kill chickens. The second rule is that anyone who has money will buy some sort of arms. The third rule is that there are no rules in the arms trade. Let us be frank: who sold arms to Israel so that it could invade Lebanon in the summer? Who sold arms to Turkey so that it could invade and occupy Cyprus for the last 40 years? These are the facts of the matter. Who armed Saddam Hussein? The Americans armed him as their instrument against Iran. Who armed Bin Laden, the biggest terrorist currently waging war against the whole of humanity? The Americans armed and funded him when they were playing games with Afghanistan and Russia. So there are no rules. There is no point in trying to adopt rules which will not be applied. On Friday, a missile exploded at the US embassy in Athens. This missile was never bought by the Greek army and yet it did us a great deal of damage and we do not know where it came from. Did it come from Albania, did it come from Lebanon, because it was the same missile as that used by the Albanian army and by Hezbollah. In all events, come it did. To the country in which there are 150 000 Kalashnikovs. We have never bought a single one of these weapons and yet in they come. Do you know what the problem with the Schengen agreement is? The problem is that arms are transported from one side of Europe to the other and not one customs officer checks them. I would remind you, Commissioner, that seven years ago the biggest canon ever made was moved right across Europe. A 50-metre canon for Saddam Hussein, which was found by a customs officer in Patras. Consequently, we are labouring in vain. Let us stop manufacturing, let us start disarming if we really want to save human lives. With what we are doing, we simply look like traffic cops trying to guess who will be killed and where."@en1

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