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 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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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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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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China on Wednesday urged the European Union to end "political discrimination" and resume its arms trade, but failed to secure a clear commitment on the timing of such a move.
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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 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 European Union failed to agree on Monday to lift an arms embargo against China despite energetic French pressure, but ministers said a stronger code of conduct on arms exports could lead to a removal of the ban.
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The foreign ministers&#39; meeting of the European Union (EU) decided in Luxembourg Monday to lift the arms ban against Libya, which the bloc imposed 18 years ago.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged the European Union Saturday to lift its ban on arms sales to Beijing imposed after the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square.
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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 French president says the European arms embargo on China is outdated and should be lifted.
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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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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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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 has assured Beijing it will not follow Turkey's lead by imposing quotas on textiles it imports from China, state media reported.
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The EU ban on arms exports to China could be lifted this year despite US objections, Jack Straw says.