EU Holds Out Prospect of End to China Arms Embargo
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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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LUXEMBOURG - The European Union has agreed to ease an 18-year arms embargo against Libya, going one step farther than the US which dropped its trade embargo against the former pariah, but maintained a weapons ban.
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French President Jacques Chirac, who has urged an end to an EU arms embargo on China, called for closer defense cooperation between Paris and Beijing at a meeting with Chinese Defence Minister Cao Gangchuan, a spokesman said.
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BEIJING, Jan 21 (IPS) - The new Chinese leadership is set to get a major  boost to its legitimacy and military ambitions as British Foreign  Secretary Jack Straw confirms in Beijing that the European Union  is ready to lift its 15-year-old ban on arms sales to China.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in Beijing Monday that China&#39;s appeal to lift the European Union&#39;s arms embargo does not mean it is eager to buy weapons from EU countries.
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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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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 is bracing for the expiry of import quotas on Chinese textiles at the end of the year amid fears of a new wave of T-shirts and trousers bearing "Made in China" labels flooding in.
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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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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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The European Union announced yesterday that it is discussing lifting the sanctions partially from Libya and added it inclined towards alleviating the weapons embargo to this country.
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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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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.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder wants to lift the European Union's weapons embargo against Beijing.
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The European Union urged China to strengthen human rights as the EU considers ending a 15-year-old arms embargo that denies weapons makers such as BAE Systems Plc access to the growing Chinese market.
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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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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.