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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	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070117.8.3-144"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-01-17-Speech-3-1452
lpv:speaker	lp:Joel Hasse Ferreira2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Socialista (2005-03-12--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2005-04-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2005-04-13--2009-07-13)3 member; EMPL (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3 substitute; Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society (2006-01-19--2007-06-19)3 substitute; IMCO (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2005-04-13--2009-07-13)3 member; PES (2005-03-12--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the arms exports carried out by the EU Member States must not run counter to the fight for human rights or give succour to dictatorships or bellicose regimes. On the issues of security in Europe and around the world and the prevention of terrorism, enormous efforts are required if we are to guarantee control of European exports of conventional arms and of goods, equipment and technology that have a clearly military application. I must stress the importance of paying careful attention to the activities and the background of countries and governments buying weapons and military equipment. The inevitable consequences of export credit mechanisms must also be removed. What we need is a clear, effective and harmonised European policy on this matter; it is vital to help strengthen the international rules on the supply of arms. I should like to end with a sentence I said in this Chamber on 16 November 2006: ‘No one will understand that the defence industries of the EU Member States at some point effectively support the waging of illegitimate wars and the propping up of dictatorial regimes’. This is not what Europe is called to do, and nor should it be what the European Union goes in for."@en1

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