EU Says Time Not Right to Lift China Arms Ban
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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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The European Union reaffirmed that it is working to lift its 15-year-old embargo on arms sales to China, in a statement released after an EU-China summit.
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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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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says lifting an EU arms embargo on China could send "the wrong signal".
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China urged the European Union yesterday to end &quot;political discrimination&quot; and resume its arms trade, but failed to secure a clear commitment on the timing of such a move.
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Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will urge the European Union to lift a 15-year-old arms embargo and call on the continent to view China as a full market economy during an EU-China summit beginning Wednesday in the Hague.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  suggested on Tuesday that Europe could send the wrong signal on  human rights in China if it ended an arms embargo imposed after  the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
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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.
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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 European Union and China pledged to boost relations Wednesday, but the EU said there can be no early lifting of its 15-year-old embargo on arms sales until Beijing improves its shaky human rights record.
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The EU is set to give a "positive signal" to China at a summit with Prime Minister Wen Jiabao over his call to lift a 15-year-old EU arms embargo, but no immediate decision is expected.
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China&#39;s recent flurry of diplomatic activity with European nations to lift the arms embargo in place since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre is the latest attempt by the country
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French President Jacques Chirac, who has urged an end to an EU arms embargo on China, yesterday called for closer defense coopera-tion between Paris and Beijing at a meeting with Chinese Defense Minister Cao ...
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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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Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot has said, just before the start of a summit with Chinese leaders. &quot;We are working assiduously but...the time is not right to lift the embargo,&quot; Bot told reporters. The. lifting
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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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Germany's ruling coalition of Social Democrats and Greens on Oct. 28 voted against lifting the European Union arms embargo against China, in direct opposition to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.