EU says time not right to lift China arms ban
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âWe are working assiduously but...the time is not right to lift the embargo,â Bot told reporters on arrival at a summit between the bloc and Chinese leaders.
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Speaking in Beijing, UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw backs plans to end the EU arms ban on China.
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China is ratcheting up pressure for the lifting of its EU arms embargo to remove the stigma of sanctions but also because it needs the technology to upgrade its existing systems, analysts say.
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European Union leaders declared their "political will" to lift an arms embargo on China, possibly by next June, while stressing that Beijing must respect human rights and regional stability.
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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 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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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says lifting an EU arms embargo on China could send "the wrong signal".
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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 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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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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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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TAIPEI, Taiwan  - Taiwan is getting jittery about a new push within the European Union to lift a 15-year Embargo on weapons sales to China - the communist giant that's been threatening to attack this tiny democratic island.
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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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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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China has warned that continuing the European Union (EU) arms embargo on Beijing will negatively affect the relationship between them.
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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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BusinessWeek Online - When it comes to the balance of power in East Asia, American strategic planners have had one particular nightmare: If the Chinese military could acquire sophisticated defense hardware and military systems from the European Union, Beijing could get a substantial assist in a possible confrontation with Taiwan. So last December, when European leaders announced they would seek to end a 15-year ban on weapons sales to China, Washington was quick to voice its displeasure. Pentagon officials talked darkly about restricting European access to sensitive U.S. ...