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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	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070117.8.3-134"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-01-17-Speech-3-1352
lpv:speaker	lp:Marios Matsakis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I congratulate the rapporteur on his excellent report. I must register my fear that our efforts towards an EU code of conduct on arms exports will, to a large extent, be made in vain. We should have no illusions. The giant arms producers and dealers of our world, niched mainly in the USA, Russia and China, are not just outside our jurisdiction but are a law unto themselves anyway. Paranoid national security phobias, widespread corruption and utter madness are fully exploited and manipulated by those whose business is selling the methodology of causing death and destruction. Exporting means of killing is, for them, a global business worth more than USD 1 trillion per annum, and they are not going to be curtailed by the dreamland romanticism of EU parliamentarians. So let us stop wasting our time in dealing with non-effective legislative utopias, and let us start thinking about how best to tackle the problem effectively at its root cause, which is the uncontrollable research, production and trade of weapons by the continuously expanding evil arms industry of death."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Dimokratiko Komma (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ENVI (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Marios Matsakis (ALDE ). –"1

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