EU sees no lifting of China arms ban
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The European Union and China agreed to boost relations yesterday, but the EU made clear there can be no early lifting of its 15-year-old
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Chinaâs human rights record does not warrant the lifting of a 15 year old EU arms embargo, said a senior US official. Gregory Suchan, US Deputy assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs
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The European Union is not yet ready  to lift an arms embargo on China, Dutch Foreign Minister  Bernard Bot said just before the start of a summit with Chinese  leaders Wednesday.  "We are working assiduously but...the time  is not right to lift the embargo," Bot told reporters. The  Netherlands holds the bloc's rotating presidency.
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The 15-year EU arms embargo on China is to continue at least into next year, despite a call yesterday from the German Chancellor, Gerhard SchrÃ¶der for the ban to be lifted.
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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 said Oct. 8 it is confident that a 15-year-old European Union arms embargo it calls a product of the Cold War would soon be lifted.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the European Union would have to work to ease tensions with the United States over the likely lifting of an embargo on arms sales to China, a move opposed by Washington.
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BEIJING, December 13 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is not concerned about the possible lifting of the embargo on the supply of armaments to China from the EU countries, announced Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov at a press conference in Beijing.
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President Jacques Chirac has championed lifting the ban imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre which the EU believes implies a near-pariah status China no longer deserves.
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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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EU leaders have squeezed a debate on the possible lifting of an arms embargo against China onto the agenda of a Brussels summit but have no plans to make an immediate decision, officials said.
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Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) - The EUâs ban on arms sales to China will be the main topic at next week high-profile diplomatic talks between China and Europe.
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THE HAGUE  - The European Union remains split over lifting the 15-year-old arms embargo on China, but &quot;the tide is turning&quot; and the bloc appears set to end the ban sooner or later, diplomats said.
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The European Union is not ready to lift its arms embargo on China, according to a senior EU minister. Bernard Bot, Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, which holds the EU&#39;s rotating presidency, made the comment at the start of EU-China talks.
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Britain has switched sides and thrown its support behind a European Union plan to lift a 15-year-old arms embargo against China, a move that threatens to trigger a rift in Britain's "special relationship" with ...
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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 international rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) Monday called on the European Union to resist China&#39;s call to end the EU embargo on arms sales to China.