Arms traders 'beat embargoes'
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The lack of a legal framework for the global arms trade is allowing weapons to reach states under embargo, a report says.
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The EU told China on Wednesday it was  not yet ready to end its 15-year-old ban on selling it arms,  but suggested the embargo could be lifted in early 2005 despite  opposition from human rights groups and Washington.
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The US is ready to hold back military technology from European allies over EU steps to revoke its arms embargo on China, the Financial Times reported.
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Poland is losing around one million euros daily due to Russia 's embargo on imports of Polish meat, meat products and agri-products, Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Andrzej Lepper said on ...Comment
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Two days after the American trade embargo was lifted from Libya, the European Union yesterday approved to lift the economic sanctions imposed on Tripoli in addition to lifting arms sales to it.
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KIEV -- A government investigation into illicit weapons sales by officials loyal to former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma has led to indictments or arrests of at least six arms dealers accused of selling nuclear-capable missiles to Iran and China, a high-ranking intelligence official said yesterday.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 30 (IPS) - Loopholes in EU arms controls are allowing weapons  exports to countries that abuse human rights, a coalition of  independent groups says.
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Russia has lifted its embargo on Polish plant products, ending a long-running dispute that was blocking a new EU-Russia agreement, Poland's agriculture ministry said on Saturday.
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The U.S. government is on its way to brokering about $20 billion in arms sales in the fiscal year that began October 1, steady with last year's near-record total, the Pentagon official responsible for such sales said on Monday.
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WASHINGTON, DC, Oct 20 (OneWorld) The administration of US President George W. Bush has lifted a 13-year arms embargo on Haiti, amid sporadic violence that threatens to plunge the western hemisphereï¿½s poorest nation back into chaos.
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There was a healthy trade surplus for companies that use the euro, despite worries over the currency's strength.
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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
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Washington, Sept. 21 (NNN): As a reward for the countryâs decision to give up weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), US President George Walker Bush has lifted his country&#39;s trade embargo on Libya.
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MOSCOW, Sept. 6 -- During a one-day visit to Indonesia on Thursday, President Vladimir Putin witnessed the signing of a $1 billion arms deal that many analysts here see as part of a broader Russian effort to restore diplomatic and military clout in the Asia-Pacific region and make some money, as...
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Japan is opposed to the lifting of the European Union's arms embargo against China, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said on Thursday after discussing the hotly debated topic with British Foreign Secretary ...
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BRUSSELS : European Union (EU) officials agreed in principle to lift an arms embargo on Libya after pressure from Italy. Italy has for several months been pressing its EU counterparts to lift the embargo imposed
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Irish arms smugglers, possibly linked to the IRA, sold the Basque terrorist group Eta at least two surface-to-air missiles which were discovered yesterday in arms caches in the French countryside, according to Spanish news reports.