Trade persuades Europe to review China arms ban
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China&#39;s demand that Europe lift its 15-year-old embargo on arms sales will receive a sympathetic hearing at today&#39;s EU-China summit in The Hague, despite fierce opposition from an unlikely alliance of human rights groups and the Bush administration.
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French President Jacques Chirac said here Friday that France is in favor of lifting the European Union (EU) weapon embargo on China, saying the ban is totally senseless.
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Beijing, Dec 7 (PTI) China has said its appeal to lift the EU&#39;s 15-year-old arms embargo does not mean the country was &quot;eager&quot; to buy weapons from EU countries, the state media reported today.
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China's new restrictions on foreign  media raise concerns about its respect for trade rules as well  as human rights and freedom of expression, European Commission  President Jose Manuel Barroso said.
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PARIS  - France regards a European arms embargo on China as outdated and wants it lifted as soon as possible, President Jacques Chirac said in an interview ahead of his visit Friday to China.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao heads to Europe this weekend with hopes of boosting trade and reducing friction with the EU, while thorny issues like human rights will not figure high on the agenda.
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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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Italy is prone to EU's lifting of arms sales embargo against China, said visiting Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi here on Monday.
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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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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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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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Dutch Foreign Minister Ben Bot reiterated that the European Union is not yet ready to lift a 15-year-old arms embargo on China, but said he hopes the ban can be ended next year.
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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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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. ...
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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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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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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.