EU to Work toward Ending China Arms Ban
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At an EU-China Summit on Wednesday, the EU said now was not the time to lift its arms embargo on China. However, EU leaders held out the prospect of ending the ban perhaps next year, despite opposition from the US.
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Despite US pleas, France and Germany want to end a European Union arms embargo of China. Fortunately, other nations in the EU are expected to nix the idea at a China-EU summit this week.
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The European Union says it is willing to work towards lifting the arms embargo on China, president of the European Council Jan Peter Balkenende has said.
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The European Union Wednesday held out the prospect of lifting a 15-year-old arms embargo on China, possibly by next year. Washington firmly opposes
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By Diao Ying  The Chinese Government is telling enterprises to prepare to meet the latest European Union regulations on chemical substances, another of many international standards that stifles China's manufacturing-heavy foreign trade.
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The European Union (EU) agreed in principle Wednesday to lift an arms embargo on Libya after pressure from Italy, which wants to help Libya close its borders to illegal immigrants, diplomats said.
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At a China- European Union summit meeting in Hague the European Union said that it was not yet ready to lift its arms ban on China imposed after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre of students.
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China has warned the EU that it risks damaging bilateral ties unless it lifts a 15-year embargo on selling arms to Beijing.
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The European Union says it is not yet ready to lift a 15-year-old ban on selling arms to China, but is working toward that goal. The arms embargo dominated a one-day EU-China summit in the Netherlands that
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The European Union is not yet ready to lift an arms embargo on China, Bernard Bot, Foreign Minister of the Netherlands which holds the bloc&#39;s rotating presidency, said Wednesday.
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China called for the European Union to lift its arms embargo on Beijing but an analyst and EU official indicated no breakthrough was likely during Premier Wen Jiabao's upcoming European summit.
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Taiwan is getting jittery about a new push within the European Union to lift a 15-year embargo on weapons sales to China &#151; the communist giant that's been threatening to attack this tiny democratic island.
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BRUSSELS The United States could restrict transfers of sensitive defense technology to European Union countries if EU members support a French effort to end the bloc&#39;s 15-year arms embargo on China, a senior State Department official said Thursday.
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The EU ban on arms exports to China could be lifted this year despite US objections, Jack Straw says.
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The European Union remains split over lifting the 15-year-old arms embargo on China, but "the tide is turning" and the bloc appears set to end the ban sooner or later, diplomats said.
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French President Jacques Chirac told his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao he wants to end the European Union&#39;s 15-year embargo on arms sales to China, introduced after troops killed student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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The foreign ministers&#39; meeting of the European Union (EU) decided in Luxembourg Monday to lift the arms ban against Libya, which the bloc imposed 18 years ago.