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"The Greek Communist Party abstained from the vote on the joint resolution by the political groups (Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, Socialist Group in the European Parliament, Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, Union for Europe of the Nations Group and Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left) on the establishment of common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional weapons because:
• it considers it incalculable hypocrisy, at a time when between 1997 and 2006 military spending increased by 37% globally, with the countries of the ΕU (France, Britain and Germany) in the top five exporters of conventional weapons, that no mention is made of this;
• it is at the very least naïve to call for 'rules' from multinational arms companies which are responsible for moving and selling conventional weapons, including to organised crime, which is also the field for their international purchases. Moreover, for every export they know both the companies and the countries in which they are established;
• we cannot sign alongside parties and political groups which support the development of the arms industry, whose governments have armed in the past and who are today still arming reactionary regimes and paramilitary and militaristic organisations and trying to make out that they are the archangels of international rules and disarmament;
• we will not help to create the illusion among the people that the imperialists and their companies will accept 'fair rules'. For them, the criteria for exports of and the trade in arms are their political interests and profit."@en1
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