Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-01-17-Speech-3-133"

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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.20070117.8.3-133"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-01-17-Speech-3-1342
lpv:speaker	lp:Panagiotis Beglitis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; INTA (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3,3 member; SEDE (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3,3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (2004-07-20--2007-09-25)3,3 member; AFET (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3,3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-22--2007-09-25)3,3 substitute; DROI (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3,3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2007-09-25)3,3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Israel (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3,3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-09-25)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, firstly I should like to say that the report by Mr Raül Romeva i Rueda really does formulate the problem; he has produced a very important piece of work and we in the Socialist Group in the European Parliament shall support it as we did in the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Unfortunately, the President-in-Office of the Council of Ministers, Mr Gloser, has left the Chamber; I say unfortunately, because we needed today to debate the basic political problem before us: why the Council of Ministers continues to refuse to convert the code of conduct into a legally binding instrument for everyone, into an effective common position. This is the important issue for everyone and this is where we shall be judged, this is where our political responsibility will be judged. European citizens want to know what the national, economic or strategic interests are of those governments and Member States that are still obstructing our wish to convert the code of conduct into a much more binding instrument and political position. This is not an issue of secondary importance. It is bound up with the very credibility of the European Union. It is bound up with the principles and values on which we want to build a common vision for a European Union of peace, security, stability and development for the developing nations of the developing world. We, as the European Parliament and the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, have supported the imposition of an arms trade embargo on China on the grounds of its continuing infringements of human rights and we need to remain firm here. However, we must at some point honestly say that the embargo and the sanctions against China have done absolutely nothing to improve the human rights situation in China and it is this that we need to reflect on. The responsibility of the Member States which export arms, especially to unstable areas of the world and to third countries that infringe the fundamental principles of the UN by keeping occupying forces in Member States of the European Union, as in the case of Turkey in Cyprus, is huge. Today, a decision by the Council to convert the code into a legally binding instrument would represent not just a symbolic but also a substantive contribution by the European Union to the consolidation of global stability."@en1

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