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"en.20120201.13.3-106-000"2
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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Baroness Ashton, the Arab Spring has led not only to political changes but also to new challenges and threats to stability. One of these is the growing phenomenon of arms smuggling.
Since the fall of Gaddafi in Libya, the Egyptian authorities have been reporting a sharp increase in arms smuggling in the Sinai Peninsula. Surface-to-air missiles, rockets and anti-aircraft guns have been stolen from army barracks abandoned by Libyan forces and now supply a black market for weapons, destined for the Gaza Strip and Hamas in particular. This is a very worrying phenomenon because these arms are capable of shooting down civilian aircraft during take-off and landing and may end up in the hands of terrorist groups such as Al-Qaida, for example in the Maghreb.
How, I ask, can we help to mitigate this growing threat and who are our potential allies?"@en1
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