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"Mr President, firstly I would like to thank Commissioner Tajani himself for the work that he has put into this Treaty. I appreciate all the efforts the Commissioner has made. Although it is the Member States who are responsible, the Commission has stood four-square behind the Member States in putting this on the UN agenda. I would also like to thank all my colleagues for taking part in this debate.
Let me say, if people are posing the question ‘is this Treaty perfect?’, that no, it is not. Is this Treaty a huge achievement in beginning to seriously regulate a very volatile industry? Yes it is. It is a major step in the right direction and there is no doubt, as other colleagues have said tonight, that trade in arms and ammunition has a significant influence on peace and stability and can, when not responsibly traded, intensify violence, human rights abuses, corruption and poverty.
I am confident that the European Parliament tomorrow will pass this Treaty with a large majority and I welcome the fact that, after we do that, the Commission will push the 28 Member States to ratify it as quickly as possible and use its diplomatic contacts to encourage other countries to sign up. We need to get past the 50 threshold as quickly as possible and to get this on the UN books.
Many Members have rightly condemned Iran, Syria and North Korea for voting against this Treaty, but let us be clear that this does not mean they escape the impact of this Treaty if exporters act responsibly, because if exporters adhere to the terms of the agreement they will not sell arms to those countries and that itself will make a major contribution to bringing stability to, for example, the Middle East, and perhaps bringing North Korea back into the civilised world.
This Treaty is not perfect. It is a major achievement though, and it will be judged in the end on the difference it makes to people’s lives on the ground. I think we are, at long last, going in the right direction in globally controlling the world’s arms trade."@en1
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